All Fairfax Reads: A County-Wide Read of Demon Copperhead!

Fairfax County Public Library is hosting events and a county-wide read of Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead as part of our annual series: All Fairfax Reads. Cosponsored by Fairfax Library Foundation.

Demon Copperhead and David Copperfield

Join us for a presentation and discussion with George Mason University Professor Teresa Michals about the connections between Charles Dickens' classic novel David Copperfield and Demon Copperhead. Explore how the themes, characters and social context of these novels connect and diverge, and discover what readers can learn from reading both.

Image of David reaching Canterbury, from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield. This image file is in the public domain in the United States.

About Teresa Michals

Teresa Michals is a Professor at George Mason University. Her publications include Books for Children, Books for Adults: Age and the Novel from Defoe to James (Cambridge, 2014) and Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson’s Navy (University of Virginia Press, 2021). She studies the history of children’s literature, representations of disability, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century British novels.

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