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Sweeping view from the floor of a great room, looking upwards past marble columns and arches to a grand golden-colored dome

A Conversation with Author and Literature Scholar Peter Brooks

Posted by: Dan Turello

A 2016 distinguished visiting scholar at the Library of Congress, comparative literature scholar Peter Brooks is writing and researching a new book on how novels relate to history and societal self-understanding, drawing in particular on Flaubert’s novel, “Sentimental Education.” At the Library of Congress, he has been using the collections of the European Reading Room …