Subject: Invitation - 1871: The Ruins of Paris
From: "The Yale Club of Washington, D.C." <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 09:16:25 -0400 (EDT)

The John W. Kluge Center wishes to invite you to an upcoming lecture by Distinguished Visiting Scholar Peter Brooks. Brooks will present a talk based on his research at the Kluge Center

1871: The Ruins of Paris

Thursday, June 2nd at 4:00 p.m.

Library of Congress.

The event is free and open to the public.

In his talk, Brooks will discuss novelist Gustave Flaubert and his novel "Sentimental Education," written on the eve of the Franco-Prussian War, which led in turn to the insurgency of the Paris Commune. Flaubert visited the ruins of Paris after the bloody repression of the Commune, the radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. Flaubert claimed that had society understood his novel, published some months earlier, the destruction would never have happened. Brooks will explore the events of 1871, the photographs of the city that were created for tourists, and the role of photography in the historiography of the moment. Representative photographs will illustrate the lecture.

Brooks is the Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and the Andrew W. Mellon Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.  He was the founding director of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale and founded the Program in Law and Humanities at the University of Virginia, where he taught in the English Department and the School of Law.  He is the author of several books, including "Henry James Goes to Paris," winner of the 2008 Christian Gauss Award.

Event Details:

What: "1871: The Ruins of Paris," a lecture by Peter Brooks, hosted by The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.

Where: Room LJ-119, First floor, Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C.

When: Thursday, June 2, 2016, 4:00 p.m. A reception follows.

Free and open to the public, no RSVP or tickets are needed.

For more information, please visit LOC website, loc.gov/kluge.

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