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Rereading and Discovery  
Three scholars talk about the experience of seeing new meaning in a familiar literary work. The Royal Commentaries of Garcilaso de la Vega, a sixteenth-century history of Peru. References to housekeeping and the housekeeper in Bleak House by Charles Dickens, and women's lives in Victorian England and their management of middle-class resources to help men achieve status. A passage on death in Montaigne's essays.
Program 65
  Participants
Lawrence Kritzman
Elizabeth Langland
Doris Sommer

 

 
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