Audio Tim Peltason The Way We Live Now

Humanities on Demand by Maine Humanities Council

Nov 7, 201855:51Government & Organizations

Professor of English at Wellesley College, Timothy Peltason writes and teaches on nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American literature and Shakespeare. His essays on Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earn...

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