An Overview of English Literature: Recent Episodes
Fernanda Moura
Short episodes on the fascinating history of English literature by a literary scholar and lecturer đ
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Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte BrontĂ«. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at â â â â â â 13:00â â â â â â (CET), starting 8 February. Today we'll read and discuss Chapters 15, 16 and 17.Join the course Exploring Jane Eyre: A Journey into Victorian Literature: â â â â â â Join Exploring Jane Eyre A Journey into Victorian Literature (booksandculture.club)
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte BrontĂ«. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at â â â â â 13:00â â â â â (CET), starting 8 February. Today we'll read and discuss Chapters 13, 14 and 15.
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Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte BrontĂ«. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at â â â â 13:00â â â â (CET), starting 8 February. Today we'll read and discuss Chapters 10, 11 and 12.
Join the course Exploring Jane Eyre: A Journey into Victorian Literature: â â â â Join Exploring Jane Eyre A Journey into Victorian Literature (booksandculture.club)
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte BrontĂ«. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at â â â 13:00â â â (CET), starting 8 February. Today we'll read and discuss Chapters 7, 8 and 9.
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Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte BrontĂ«. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at â â 13:00â â (CET), starting 8 February. Today we'll read and discuss Chapters 5 and 6.
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Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte BrontĂ«. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at â 13:00â (CET), starting 8 February. Today we'll read and discuss Chapters 2, 3 and 4.
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Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at 13:00 (CET), starting 8 February. Today I'll introduce you to the project, and we'll read and discuss the Preface and Chapter 1.
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In this episode we talk about the friendship between Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, two important names in Victorian literature.
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This is Episode 51 of the podcast "Josephine Tey and the Golden Age of Crime Fiction". Listen now!
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This is Episode 50 of the podcast "An Overview of English Literature". We'll talk about King James II. As I always tell my students, history and literature go hand in hand!
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This is Episode 49 of the podcast "An Overview of English Literature".
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In this episode we'll read together the second part of the story "The Duchess at Prayer", by the American author Edith Wharton, to get in the mood for Halloween!
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In this episode we'll read together the first part of the story "The Duchess at Prayer", by the American author Edith Wharton, to get in the mood for Halloween!
Join the new group in the course Reading Short Stories, starting on November 6. More info here: â â Join Reading Short Stories (booksandculture.club)
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In this episode we'll read together the scary story "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, to get in the mood for Halloween!
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In this episode we'll read together the scary story "The Apparition", by Guy de Maupassant, to get in the mood for Halloween!
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In this episode we'll read together the spooky story "The Shoemaker and the Devil", by Anton Chekhov, to get in the mood for Halloween!
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In this episode we'll read together the spooky story "The Landlady", by Roald Dahl, to get in the mood for Halloween!
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In this episode we'll talk about the author who established the Gothic genre in England, the most highly paid writer of the 1790s, Ann Radcliffe!Want to join the live workshop "Terror or Horror?: Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance"? Register via the website: https://booksandculture.club/join-ann-radcliffe-workshop
This is a special episode, because, in addition to being episode number 40 â how nice that weâve been here for so long, right? Since 2020 â but, in addition to that, Iâll be launching a brand new course at Books & Culture soon, and Iâm very excited about it, itâs called âReading Short Storiesâ, but Iâll tell you more about it at the end of this episode. I hope by then youâll be convinced of the magic of reading short stories.
Registration opens on 26 July via the website: Course Catalogue Dashboard (booksandculture.club)
In this episode we'll talk about the author of North and South, the friend of Charles Dickens, and the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë: the great Elizabeth Gaskell!
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In this episode we'll talk about a very interesting person connected to the Austen family: the cousin Eliza de Feuillide.
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Hello, book lover!
In this episode I tell you a bit about three big names in Victorian literature: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë! <3
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This is a very special episode in our podcast, because it is the first time we welcome a book lover to speak with us here! Todayâs guest is Megan Neuhoff. I hope you like our bookish conversation!
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Let's read together and discuss the short story "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley.
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In this episode we talk about the writer Mary Shelley, the author of the fascinating novel Frankenstein.
If you want to explore Frankenstein deeper, youâve got to check out the online course âUnderstanding Frankensteinâ at Books & Culture. In 7 lessons, we study the fascinating and intriguing creation story of the novel, the context of Romanticism, the narrative style, the theme of the monstrous, the human and the posthuman, the female Gothic, science fiction and scientific contexts.
Following this course will definitely enrich your experience reading or re-reading this classic of English literature. To sign up and have access to the material right away, go to the website booksandculture.club or https://booksandculture.club/join-understanding-frankenstein.
In this episode I tell you a bit about Jane Austen's first published novel "Sense and Sensibility" and its publication history.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
P.S.: Listen until the end to find a special offer for you, Jane Austen lover!
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
Want to sign up for the free masterclass "Pastimes in Jane Austen's Era" on May 26th? Click here: https://booksandculture.club/funnel-free-jane-austen-masterclass
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
Want to sign up for the free masterclass "Pastimes in Jane Austen's Era" on May 26th? Click here: https://booksandculture.club/funnel-free-jane-austen-masterclass
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
Want to sign up for the free masterclass "Pastimes in Jane Austen's Era"? Click here: https://booksandculture.club/funnel-free-jane-austen-masterclass
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career?Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel.
Want to know more about Jane Austen's life and writing career? Join the online course The Jane Austen Club via the website: https://booksandculture.club
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)
Join the online course The Jane Austen Club: Join The Jane Austen Club (booksandculture.club)
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)
Join the course "The Jane Austen Club" - https://booksandculture.club/
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)
You can grab your own copy of Austenâs Sense and Sensibility, a cup of tea or coffee, and read along with me. You can pause and continue at any time. In this first session I'll give you an introduction to Jane Austen and her first published novel, and we'll read and discuss the novel's chapter 1.
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In this episode Iâll talk about creative reading, a meaningful way to connect and interact with the literary text! You can find more information on the website: http://booksandculture.club
In this episode I invite the literary scholars Eli Elshani and Alicia Rojas Costa to talk about medievalism and how the figure of King Arthur has been depicted in culture.
In this episode I talk about the English journalist, political philosopher and novelist William Godwin, the author of âAn Enquiry Concerning Political Justiceâ and âCaleb Williamsâ. He was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley, the future author of âFrankensteinâ.
In this episode we travel back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries to explore the âharmonious madnessâ of the Romantic period in English literature. P.s.: âLyrical Balladsâ was published for the first time in 1798.
The end of the 18th century was a revolutionary era: the Industrial Revolution changed the way people lived and worked; the American Revolution saw the rise of the United States of America as an independent country; and the French Revolution brought Franceâs despotic monarchy to an end. In this episode, learn how some influential English writers responded to the French Revolution in England.
Gothic literature started in England in 1764 with Horace Walpoleâs âThe Castle of Otrantoâ. It then boomed in the 1790s with the author Ann Radcliffe. Listen to this episode and know more about how this genre came to be, and how it expanded into the 20th and 21st centuries.
The 18th century is commonly known as the great age of letter writing. Everyone wrote letters! Listen to this episode and find out how this practice affected the literary production of the time.
The rise of the novel as a new literary genre sprang from two main currents: that of the popular and entertaining novel of amorous intrigue, and the counter-movement of the edifying high-brow novel. Listen to this episode and know more!
The 18th century was a period of wit, in which authors used different strategies to criticise the politics of the time. One of them was satire!
In this episode I talk about a dark period in English history, but which had a great impact on the ways of thinking about the human being in the 17th and 18th centuries: slavery and the slave trade.
In this episode you will know more about Daniel Defoe, the author of the famous âRobinson Crusoeâ, and about his political writings in 18th-century England.
In this episode I talk about Eliza Haywood, the main female writer of the first half of the 18th century. She was an important name in the literary genre of amatory fiction: stories about love and sexual adventures with female protagonists.
Listen to this episode about the main name in the second literary phase of the long 18th century, which lasted from 1700 to 1744: the poet and king of satire, Alexander Pope.
In this episode you will know more about Aphra Behn (1640?-1689), the first professional woman writer in England, who worked as a spy during Charles IIâs reign and left her mark in the history of English literature.
After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, Charles II reigned for almost 25 years. Listen to this episode and know what the main events of his reign were and what happened after his death.
John Dryden (1631-1700) was the main literary figure in the last decades of the 17th century in England. Listen to this episode and know more about his writing style.
The period between 1660 and 1785 in English literary history can be divided in three phases: the first from 1660 until 1700; the second from 1701 until 1744; and the last one from 1745 until 1785. Listen to the podcast to know more about the main authors and characteristics of each phase.
In this episode I talk about how books were printed and circulated in England after the Restoration up to the beginning of the 18th century.
The year is 1660 and Charles II has been summoned to restore the English monarchy. Listen to this episode to have a better understanding of the context surrounding this historical moment.