OLLI101511 - Waiting In "Unhope": Tess Of The D'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman By Thomas Hardy [In-person at TUCC]
Course Description
Waiting In “Unhope”: Tess Of The D’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman By Thomas Hardy
Instructor: Jo Ellen Winters
Dates: Thursdays, Sep 28-Dec 7
No Class: Nov 23
Time: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM
Location: In-person at Center City (TUCC)
Once Tess Durbeyfield becomes Tess d’Urberville, many familiar and stabilizing forces in her life are altered or diminished, even eliminated. Follow Tess from Wessex/Marlott to Talbothays, Flintcomb-Ash to Stonehenge and beyond, from expectation to confusion to “unhope,” as we consider the life and times of her creator, Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy: his poetry, his themes, and his darkening world view.
Maximum in-person registrants: 30
Instructor’s Bio:
Jo Ellen Winters, BA, Comparative Literature, Brandeis University; MA, ABD, Temple University. Professor emerita of English, Bucks County Community College (44 years), where she taught Intro to the Novel, Humanities (team-taught, interdisciplinary), Shakespeare, Short Fiction, and survey courses in American, British, and World literature. She has also taught at Temple University (2 years), Rutgers, C.W. Post College (2 years), and Pennswood Village in Newtown, Bucks County (10 years of intergenerational 3-credit college literature courses).
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