Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchKatherine Giuffre, "Outrage: The Arts and the Creation of Modernity" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 146
A cultural revolution in England, France, and the United States beginning during the time of the industrial and political revolutions helped usher in…
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Kevin Killeen, "The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 230
Today’s guest is Kevin Killeen whose new monograph, The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the Ineffable, has …
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Robert Mills, "Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages" (U Chicago Press, 2015)
Episode 42
Seeing Sodomy in the Middle Ages (University of Chicago, 2015) explores the relation between sodomy and motifs of vision and visibility in medieval c…
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Mathias F. Clasen, "Why Horror Seduces" (Oxford UP, 2017)
Episode 169
From vampire apocalypses, shark attacks, witches, and ghosts, to murderous dolls bent on revenge, horror has been part of the American cinematic imag…
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Mateusz Świetlicki, "Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory" (Routledge, 2023)
Episode 23
Mateusz Świetlicki's book Next-Generation Memory and Ukrainian Canadian Children's Historical Fiction: The Seeds of Memory (Routledge, 2023) is the f…
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Derek Attridge, "The Singularity of Literature" (Routledge, 2017)
Episode 229
The Iliad and Beowulf provide rich sources of historical information. The novels of Henry Fielding and Henry James may be instructive in the art of m…
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Peter Stansky, "The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War" (Stanford UP, 2023)
Episode 87
Few English writers wielded a pen so sharply as George Orwell, the quintessential political writer of the twentieth century. His literary output at o…
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Lia Brozgal and Rebecca Glasberg, eds., "A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 413
A Jewish Childhood in the Muslim Mediterranean: A Collection of Stories Curated by Lela Sebbar (U California Press, 2023) brings together the fascina…
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Adhaar Noor Desai, "Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature and the Poetics of Discomposition" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 228
Almost every student that will enroll in a college Shakespeare course can expect two things. Students will have to engage with the style and themes o…
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Katie Kadue, "Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
Episode 227
Many early modern humanists would balk at the proposition that what they did amounted to housework. They were far more likely to reach for the heroic…
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