Writing and Re-Writing Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Mind at WorkBy Shoshana Milgram This audio lecture is intended for an audience very familiar with the plot, theme and philosophical content of the novel. It is based on archival research in the Library of Congress in 1997 and at the Ayn Rand Archives in 2004; some of the material was presented in “Ayn Rand’s Drafts: The Labors of a Literary Genius” (taped lectures, Second Renaissance Books, 1998). Shoshana Milgram [Knapp] holds a PhD in comparative literature from Stanford University. She is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. She has published articles on a variety of nineteenth- and twentieth-century figures in French, Russian, and English/American literature, including Napoleon Bonaparte, Victor Hugo, George Sand, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoi, Victoria Cross, George Eliot, John Fowles, W. S. Gilbert, Henry James, Ursula K. LeGuin, Vladimir Nabokov, Herbert Spencer, W. T. Stead, E. L. Voynich and Ayn Rand. She is also the author of introductions to editions of Toilers of the Sea and The Man Who Laughs, by Victor Hugo, The Seafarers, by Nevil Shute, and Graustark, by George Barr McCutcheon. Her current project is a study of Ayn Rand’s life up to 1957. Playback of this video requires RealPlayer®. Lecture (52 min.) Q & A (27 min.) |