Maine Humanities Council

The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with a Friday evening lecture and dinner (a gastronomic taste of the time and culture reflected in the chosen text). The group reconvenes Saturday on various aspects of the book, from cultural context, to critical analysis, to explorations of specific themes.

This year’s selection, George Eliot’s Middlemarch is an English masterpiece the follows the social and intellectual lives of very human characters in a small provincial town.

Dianne Sadoff, professor of English at Rutgers University presented third on Saturday morning with a lecture entitled “The Reading Nation at Mid-Century: George Eliot’s Critics, Contemporaries, and Publishers.”

Winter Weekend 2010 took place March 12 and 13, 2010 at Bowdoin College.

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The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with a Friday evening lecture and dinner (a gastronomic taste of the time and culture reflected in the chosen text). The group reconvenes Saturday on various aspects of the book, from cultural context, to critical analysis, to explorations of specific themes.

This year’s selection, George Eliot’s Middlemarch is an English masterpiece the follows the social and intellectual lives of very human characters in a small provincial town.

Charles Calhoun, the charming Scholar in Residence at the Maine Humanities Council presented second on Saturday morning with a lecture entitled “Why Was There No British Revolution? The Political Economy of Middlemarch.

Winter Weekend 2010 took place March 12 and 13, 2010 at Bowdoin College.

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The Council’s annual Winter Weekend, a humanities seminar on a classic text, provides an opportunity for readers to confront, in a group setting, an important work of literature. Held at Bowdoin College in early March, the program begins with a Friday evening lecture and dinner (a gastronomic taste of the time and culture reflected in the chosen text). The group reconvenes Saturday on various aspects of the book, from cultural context, to critical analysis, to explorations of specific themes.

This year’s selection, George Eliot’s Middlemarch is an English masterpiece the follows the social and intellectual lives of very human characters in a small provincial town.

Amy A Kass, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and senior lecturer in the humanities at the University of Chicago opened Saturday’s program with her lecture entitled “Sympathy, Love and Marriage: Effective Reform in Middlemarch“.

Winter Weekend 2010 took place March 12 and 13, 2010 at Bowdoin College.

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