Event Description
Keith Bradley: Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: History or Fiction?
Keith Bradley is the author of the recent "Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian: Writing the Life of A Roman Emperor" (University of Toronto Press, 2024), a study of Yourcenar's acclaimed novel, "Memoirs of Hadrian". In this talk he will describe how he came to write the book, discuss the issues involved in finding history in a historical novel, and show how Yourcenar's work succeeds as a form of Roman imperial biography.
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Event Info
Nov 16, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM EST
Online
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