Instructor(s)
Sylvia Abrams
Professor Emeritus, Siegal College
Location
Date
Mondays, January 22-February 12
Time
10:00AM to 11:30AM ET
Books featuring contagion have long held a fascination for readers. How distant a lens must one have to create lasting fiction about a catastrophic event? In this course, we will consider classics from a wide chronological range, including: Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1722), written about the bubonic plague of 1665; Nemesis by Philip Roth (2010), which covers the polio outbreak of 1944; and “The Pot” by Shalom Aleichem (1901), a short story about tuberculosis. We will close by considering two recent novels about the Covid-19 outbreak, Country Friends by Gary Shtenygart and Kunstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine.
Member of Lifelong Learning Cost
Members receive 15% discount
Nonmember Cost
$90