Where: All Lectures will take place in the Dairy Barn Lecture Hall at the Frontier Culture Museum
When: 7:00 PM for each of the 4 lecture dates noted below
Cost: This event is free to the public
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Alan Taylor
Lecture #1: Tuesday March 3, 2015
Alan Taylor – “James Fenimore Cooper’s Vision of the American Frontier”
Mr. Taylor is a historian specializing in early American history. He is the author of a number of books about colonial America, the American Revolution, and the Early American Republic. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and the Bancroft Prize for his work.
Lecture #2: Tuesday March 10, 2015
Eric A. Bryan – “Romance on the Border of Old Virginia: The Shenandoah Valley Frontier in the Novels of John Esten Cooke.”
Mr. Bryan is the Deputy Director of the Frontier Culture Museum where he provides general management and administration of this outdoor living-history museum, educational institution, and agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Robert Battistini
Lecture #3: Tuesday March 17, 2015 (Rescheduled from February 24)
Robert Battistini – “Federalist Canary in the Coal Mine of the Frontier: Hugh Henry Brackenridge’s (Reluctant) Encounter with Emergent America in Modern Chivalry”
Mr. Battistini is the department specialist in American literatures before 1900 at Centenary College in New Jersey. In addition to his scholarly research, He is a co-editor of the Literary Magazine volume of the new Charles Brockden Brown Scholarly Edition.
Todd Hagstette
Lecture #4: Tuesday March 24, 2015 (Rescheduled from February 17)
Todd Hagstette – “Where Civilization and the Wild Collide: The Frontier Imagination of William Gilmore Simms”
Mr. Hagstette leads the Simms Initiative at the University of South Carolina and also edits the journal of the William Gilmore Simms Society.
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