Library to Host Program on Conduct Literature

The
Tompkins County Public Library will host award-winning SUNY Cortland English
Professor Denise Knight for a presentation of “‘One is Not Fond of Overripe
Pears’”: Conduct Literature and the Call for ‘True Womanhood’” August 16 at 6
p.m. in the BorgWarner Community Room.

Held
in conjunction with the 2012 Community Read of Romain Gary’s “The Life Before
Us,” Knight’s lecture will explore