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Back to SearchErin Webster, "The Curious Eye: Optics and Imaginative Literature in Seventeenth-Century England" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 188
Today’s guest, Erin Webster, is the author of The Curious Eye: Optics and Literature in Early Modern England (Oxford University Press, 2020). A book …
3 years, 7 months ago
David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 328
In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who po…
3 years, 7 months ago
David Caute, "Red List: MI5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century" (Verso, 2022)
Episode 328
In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those who po…
3 years, 7 months ago
On John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
Episode 70
As a young student at Christ’s College Cambridge, John Milton announced to the world that he was going to write the greatest poem that the world has …
3 years, 7 months ago
Andrew Fitzmaurice, "King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century" (Princeton UP, 2021)
Episode 1277
Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian B…
3 years, 7 months ago
Gurpinder Singh Lalli, "Schools, Space and Culinary Capital" (Routledge, 2022)
Episode 253
Gurpinder Singh Lalli's book Schools, Space and Culinary Capital (Routledge, 2022) introduces the notion of culinary capital to investigate socialisa…
3 years, 7 months ago
Joseph Valente and Margot Gayle Backus, "The Child Sex Scandal and Modern Irish Literature: Writing the Unspeakable" (Indiana UP, 2020)
Episode 27
What can James Joyce, Kate O’Brien, Edna O’Brien, Keith Ridgway, Tana French, and Anne Enright tell us about Ireland’s culture of child sexual abuse?…
3 years, 7 months ago
Shaken and Stirred
Episode 26
We couldn’t do a season on the Cold War without talking about Bond . . . James Bond. He was there from the beginning and has of course survived into …
3 years, 7 months ago
David Kaiser, "Well, Doc, You're In: Freeman Dyson’s Journey through the Universe" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 125
Freeman Dyson (1923–2020)—renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast—helped invent modern physics. Not bound by disciplinary divisions, he went on…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ashley Sweetman, "Cyber and the City: Securing London’s Banks in the Computer Age" (Springer, 2022)
Episode 48
Dr. Ashley Sweetman works in cyber security for a London-based global bank and holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King’s College Londo…
3 years, 7 months ago