Trollope, Eliot...Darwin? Charles Darwin as a Victorian Writer

Times:

4:00 - 5:45 p.m.

View the "Dialogues with Darwin" Exhibit at the APS Museum

6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Adam Gopnik, in conversation with George Levine,

Benjamin Franklin Hall

Locations:

APS Museum, 104 S. 5th Street

Benjamin Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut Street

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The APS Museum celebrates the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s seminal On the Origin of Species with an unconventional look at Darwin—not as a scientist—but as a writer. Both Adam Gopnik, the author of Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln and Modern Life, and George Levine have written of Darwin’s literary approach to nature. Their conversation will focus on Darwin's qualities as a patient observer, as a lucid writer engaged with the world, and as a modern man.

Adam Gopnik is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author. His essays in The New Yorker range from historical topics and art history to comic personal stories of life in Paris and New York.

George Levine is professor emeritus of English at Rutgers University. A respected literary critic, his primary scholarly interest is Victorian literature with a particular interest in science and literature. Among his many books is Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World.