Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Presented by Andrea Wulf
Fernwood is thrilled to welcome back Andrea Wulf, author of The Invention of Nature, to speak virtually about her latest book, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self. Magnificent Rebels was recently honored as an “Essential Read” on the New Yorker’s list of “Best Books of 2022.”
About Magnificent Rebels:
From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of rebels who changed the way we think about ourselves and the world. Forget Paris… the real Revolution in the 1790s happened in Jena, a quiet German university town where the unlikely revolutionaries were not soldiers or politicians but poets, playwrights, literary critics, and scientists. Their collaboration launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest poets, novelists and thinkers across the world, with their emphasis on individual experience, their description of nature as a living organism, and their insistence of the unity of humankind and nature. In Magnificent Rebels, Andrea Wulf takes us on a vivid journey through their adventures and misadventures, passionate love affairs and epic quarrels, successes and heartbreak. The French revolutionaries may have changed the political landscape, but these young Romantics incited a revolution of the mind that shaped our modern world.
About Andrea Wulf:
Andrea Wulf is an award-winning author of several books. Her book The Invention of Nature. Alexander von Humboldt’s New World is published in 27 languages and has sold more than 800,000 copies. A New York Times bestseller, it was also a New York Times 2015 Top Ten Book and won fifteen international literary awards, including the prestigious Costa Biography Award 2015 (UK) and the Royal Society Science Book Prize 2016 (UK), LA Times Book Prize 2015 (US) as well as awards in Germany, China, France and Italy. Andrea has written for many newspapers including the Guardian, New York Times, Financial Times, LA Times, and The Atlantic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and PEN American Center. For more information see www.andreawulf.com
*Copies of Wulf’s books will be available for purchase at Fernwood’s gift shop.
About the virtual lecture:
You will receive a zoom link sent directly to the email address used for registration in advance of the lecture. Please do not share this link with others. Lectures are live and will not be recorded. Please register for this event by 1/25/23.
Cost:$40 ($32 members)
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