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Panel Discussion of Denise Gigante’s Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America
November 16, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Panel discussion of Denise Gigante’s BOOK MADNESS : A Story of Book Collectors in America.
Wednesday, Nov 16. 5pm – 7pm
With Jesse Erickson (Morgan Library), Melina Moe (Columbia University) and Heather O’Donnell (Honey & Wax Books).
Location: HYBRID
Online: REGISTER
In person: CCA, Rutgers Academic Building West, Room 6051
Book Madness: A Story of Book Collectors in America tells the story of bibliophilia and book collecting in mid-nineteenth-century America when the country’s major libraries were being formed. Denise Gigante (Stanford University) is the author of half a dozen books including The Keats Brothers: The Story of John and George (Harvard University Press), a New York Times Notable Book. She is working to complete The Mental Traveller: A Blakean Pilgrimage through Medieval and Renaissance Iconography, based on her Clarendon Lectures at Oxford University in 2020.