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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so painful for their targets in government that, from then until the 1960s, plays required approval before being staged; seeking other ways to make a living, Fielding turned to law and to fiction. 'Tom Jones' is one of the great comic novels, with the tightness of a farce and the ambition of a Greek epic as told by the finest raconteur. While other authors might present Tom as a rake and a libertine, Fielding makes him the hero for his fundamental good nature, so offering a caution not to judge anyone too soon, if ever.With Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of LondonHenry Power Professor of English Literature at the University of ExeterAndCharlotte Roberts Associate Professor of English Literature at University College LondonProducer: Simon TillotsonIn Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio ProductionReading list:Martin C. Battestin with Ruthe R. Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life (Routledge, 1989)J. M. Beattie, The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750–1840 (Oxford University Press, 2012) S. Dickie, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2011)J.A. Downie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2020)Henry Fielding (ed. John Bender and Simon Stern), The History of Tom Jones (Oxford University Press, 2008)Henry Fielding (ed. Tom Keymer), The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Penguin Classics, 1996)Ronald Paulson, The Life of Henry Fielding: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell, 2000)Henry Power, Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature (Oxford University Press, 2015)Claude Rawson, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress (first published 1972; Routledge, 2021)Claude Rawson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss "The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling" (1749) by Henry Fielding (1707-1754), one of the most influential of the early English novels and a favourite of Dickens. Coleridge wrote that it had one of the 'three most perfect plots ever planned'. Fielding had made his name in the theatre with satirical plays that were so painful for their targets in government that, from then until the 1960s, plays required approval before being staged; seeking other ways to make a living, Fielding turned to law and to fiction. 'Tom Jones' is one of the great comic novels, with the tightness of a farce and the ambition of a Greek epic as told by the finest raconteur. While other authors might present Tom as a rake and a libertine, Fielding makes him the hero for his fundamental good nature, so offering a caution not to judge anyone too soon, if ever.With Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of LondonHenry Power Professor of English Literature at the University of ExeterAndCharlotte Roberts Associate Professor of English Literature at University College LondonProducer: Simon TillotsonIn Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio ProductionReading list:Martin C. Battestin with Ruthe R. Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life (Routledge, 1989)J. M. Beattie, The First English Detectives: The Bow Street Runners and the Policing of London, 1750–1840 (Oxford University Press, 2012) S. Dickie, Cruelty and Laughter: Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2011)J.A. Downie (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Oxford University Press, 2020)Henry Fielding (ed. John Bender and Simon Stern), The History of Tom Jones (Oxford University Press, 2008)Henry Fielding (ed. Tom Keymer), The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon (Penguin Classics, 1996)Ronald Paulson, The Life of Henry Fielding: A Critical Biography (Wiley Blackwell, 2000)Henry Power, Epic into Novel: Henry Fielding, Scriblerian Satire, and the Consumption of Classical Literature (Oxford University Press, 2015)Claude Rawson, Henry Fielding and the Augustan Ideal under Stress (first published 1972; Routledge, 2021)Claude Rawson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Henry Fielding (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Noreen's Memoir, A Flat Place, is now Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction. It was also a Book of the Year 2023 for The Guardian, Sunday Times & New Yorker. It was longlisted for The Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize, Shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Author of the Year Award 2024 and Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2024. Noreen lectures at Bristol in 20th Century Literature and has been published in outlets like TLS and Aeon. As an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker, she's done broadcast work includes Radio 3 and Radio 4's beloved In Our Time. Find out more about Noreen's work here. And get yourself a copy of the book here, or at your local bookshop.

Adam David Morton, Professor of Political Economy in the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, talks with Mark Steven about his new book, Class War: A Literary History. This book is a thrilling and vivid work of history, Class War weaves together literature and politics to chart the making and unmaking of social class through revolutionary combat. In a narrative that spans the globe and more than two centuries of history, Mark Steven traces the history of class war from the Haitian Revolution to Black Lives Matter. Surveying the literature of revolution, from the poetry of Shelley and Byron to the novels of Émile Zola and Jack London, exploring the writings of Frantz Fanon, Che Guevara, and Assata Shakur, Class War reveals the interplay between military action and the politics of class, showing how solidarity flourishes in times of conflict. Written with verve and ranging across diverse historical settings, Class War traverses industrial battles, guerrilla insurgencies, and anticolonial resistance, as well as large-scale combat operations waged against capitalism's regimes and its interstate system. In our age of economic crisis, ecological catastrophe, and planetary unrest, Steven tells the stories of those whose actions will help guide future militants toward a revolutionary horizon. Mark Steven is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Literature at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the author of Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (2017) and Splatter Capital (2017). This interview is a part of the 2023 Festival of Urbanism Book Club Podcast series

Notes and Links to Jared Beloff's Work      For Episode 198, Pete welcomes Jared Beloff, and the two discuss, among other topics, an early reading challenge that supercharged his voraciousness, contemporary and not-so contemporary writers who left an imprint on him with their visceral work and distinctive worldbuilding, his quick rise to published and acclaimed poet, and pertinent themes in his collection, including nostalgia, indifference, a fading and changing ecosystem, and the myriad effects of climate change.         Jared Beloff is the author of the Who Will Cradle Your Head (ELJ Editions, 2023).    He earned degrees at Rutgers University (BA in English) Johns Hopkins University (MA in English Literature, specializing in the novel and Romantic/18th Century Literature).    Jared has been an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College, an English teacher and a teacher mentor in NYC public schools for 16 years.    Jared is currently a peer reviewer for The Whale Road Review. His poetry can be found in Contrary Magazine, Barren Magazine, KGB Bar Lit, The Shore, Rise Up Review, Bending Genres and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Queens, NY. Buy Who Will Cradle Your Head   Jared's Website   From Identity Theory: “Cracking Open Clams: A Conversation Between Jared Beloff and Candice Kelsey” At about 2:35, Jared talks about a reading challenge that put his reading intake into high-gear   At about 4:25, Jared updates on his reading this summer/including The Sealey Challenge   At about 5:25, Jared reflects on the psychological/philosophical roots of his reading, especially his early reading   At about 7:35, Jared lists some formational and transformational works and writers, like Angels in América and English Patient, as well as Pablo Neruda, Bishop, and Forche's work   At about 10:00, Jared reflects on how his own work reflects that which he has read and enjoyed throughout his life   At about 11:30, Jared responds to Pete's questions about how he has been inspired and moved by fiction and poetry written about climate change; he cites Allegra Hyde's impressive work, as well as work by Hila Ratzabi, Craig Santos-Perez, and Claire Wahmanholm;    At about 14:40, Jared shouts out Diane Seuss, who blurbed his collection, and how her work informs his, as well as how Obit and its metaphors “blew [him] away”   At about 15:20, Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky is highlighted as a stimulus for Jared's writing   At about 16:25, Pete highlights Mai Der Vang's Yellow Rain, and Nguyen and Anthony Cody are shouted out by Jared as influential in his work   At about 17:35, Jared talks about seeds for his collection, especially the “Swamp Thing” poems by Jack Bedell and the ways Todd Dillard uses “wonder”   At about 23:05, Pete highlights the collection's first poem, one “After” Aimee Nezhukumatathil; Jared discusses the methodology of these “After” poems, the ideas of a “muse,” and how he often writes after what/who he teaches   At about 27:50, Jared discusses the background and content of “Animal Crackers”   At about 30:45, Pete compliments Jared on his work regarding his children, and Jared talks about thinking through poems and “allowing wonder to stay” despite “grief-laden” poems   At about 34:30, Jared explains how he used climate change as a proxy a(or vice versa?) for other types of grief both personal and societal    At about 35:40, Pete highlights profound lines and asks about Sasquatch's importance throughout the collection   At about 39:50, Pete and Jared talk structure in Jared's collection, including the diamond/pyramid structure and its uniqueness and power    At about 41:30, Jared shouts out Diana Khoi Nguyen's work and using some structural stimuli   At about 45:05, Pete cites meaningful lines revolving around nostalgia and ideas of energy; he asks Jared about a cool and clever and depressing poem involving the Golden Girls   At about 48:15, Pete asks Jared his views on nostalgia in his work; Jared connects nostalgia with climate change circumstances    At about 51:15, Indifference in the face of climate emergencies is discussed, and Jared discusses “complic[ity]” and political choices   At about 53:00, Jared responds to Pete's questions about climate change advocacy in the system  “tied/tired” as used in a poem   At about 54:00, Jared gives history on Freshkills and its history and eccentric future   At about 55:30, Jared reads the portion of the above poem that features the collection's title and explains the title's genesis    At about 59:00, Jared discusses exciting new projects    At about 1:01:30, Jared shouts out places to buy his book    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Musician and composer, Greg Wilbur of New College Franklin contemplates music within the quadrivium; he explains why music ought to be ordered rightly in education and how it rests in harmony with the other Liberal Arts. He even discusses a little bit of conspiracy theories.  Gregory Wilbur is President and Dean of the College, permanent Trustee, and Senior Fellow at New College Franklin. Over the past years at New College, he has taught courses or sections of Music, Geometry, Cosmology, Moral Philosophy, Poetics, and numerous preceptorials such as The Art of Film, 20th-Century Literature, Hospitality and Cooking, and the Quadrivium. Mr. Wilbur has composed award-winning works for choir, orchestra, film, and corporate worship as well as various commissions. He recently released his fifth CD of congregational hymns called Praise Your Maker.  

The pals share their favorite titles of the last 23 years, and a surprise Canon or Cannon decision is made.

In eighteenth-century England, while famous writers such as Alexander Pope and Jonathon Swift were making a living through their published works, a small but growing number of women also started to live by their pens. However, because of the way women were perceived in the public sphere, they were not able to write about themselves in the way men did. In 2017, Professor Christine Gerrard gave the keynote address at the BAKEA conference in Turkey entitled ‘Memory and the Eighteenth-century Female Poet'. In this talk she discussed the difference between memory as expressed by male and female poets of this period, and this sparked an interest in women and memory that Professor Gerrard has been pursuing ever since. In this episode, Flora Symington, second year English student at Somerville College, will be interviewing Professor Gerrard, Fellow and Tutor in English at Lady Margaret Hall, about her work in this area.

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/performing-arts

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/poetry

In Soundworks: Race, Sound, and Poetry in Production (Duke UP, 2020), Anthony Reed argues that studying sound requires conceiving it as process and as work. Since the long Black Arts era (ca. 1958–1974), intellectuals, poets, and musicians have defined black sound as radical aesthetic practice. Through their recorded collaborations as well as the accompanying interviews, essays, liner notes, and other media, they continually reinvent black sound conceptually and materially.  Soundwork is Reed's term for that material and conceptual labor of experimental sound practice framed by the institutions of the culture industry and shifting historical contexts. Through analyses of Langston Hughes's collaboration with Charles Mingus, Amiri Baraka's work with the New York Art Quartet, Jayne Cortez's albums with the Firespitters, and the multimedia projects of Archie Shepp, Matana Roberts, Cecil Taylor, and Jeanne Lee, Reed shows that to grasp black sound as a radical philosophical and aesthetic insurgence requires attending to it as the product of material, technical, sensual, and ideological processes. Henry Ivry is a Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century Literature in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sound-studies

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 677, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 19Th Century Literature 1: Essays making up this 1854 work include "Reading", "Solitude" and "The Pond in Winter". Walden; or, Life in the Woods. 2: Akela the wolf and Baloo the brown bear are 2 of the animals featured in this collection of stories. The Jungle Book. 3: Early in this Jules Verne tale, professor Otto Lidenbrock, his nephew and a guide descend into a volcano. Journey to the Center of the Earth. 4: Wordsworth began a poem, "I wandered lonely as" this "that floats on high o'er vales and hills". a cloud. 5: 2 expatriates come to Boston to visit relatives in his 1878 novel "The Europeans". Henry James. Round 2. Category: General Food 1: A term for grain from grass, it follows "breakfast" in your morning routine. cereal. 2: General term for the edible kernel of a one-seeded fruit. a nut. 3: Food in the Old West, perhaps from the wagon of the same name. chuck. 4: Despite its name, this storeroom similar to a pantry is not specifically for keeping hog fat. a larder. 5: Sometimes "K" or "C", they're food supplies for soldiers. rations. Round 3. Category: Ernie 1: On "Sesame Street", Ernie sang of his great affection for this bathtub accessory. the rubber ducky. 2: As Stinky, Ernie Weckbaugh was a cast member of this group that also included Spanky and Alfalfa. the Little Rascals (or Our Gang). 3: Famous Ernie's in State College, Pennsylvania is famous for the sandwiches "wit or witout onions". a cheesesteak. 4: In 1961 Ernie Davis of Syracuse won this trophy; no African American had before, not even Ernie's idol Jim Brown. the Heisman. 5: Cartoonist Ernie Bushmiller created this mischievous young girl. Nancy. Round 4. Category: Living At The Watergate 1: This Kansas senator was head of the RNC and living at the Watergate during the '72 break-in but was in Chicago that night. Bob Dole. 2: Ironically, in 1969 Rose Mary Woods, this man's secretary, was the victim of one of the Watergate's first burglaries. Richard Nixon. 3: In 1996 this Supreme Court justice from N.Y. and Watergate resident had her purse snatched outside the building. Ruth Bader Ginsburg. 4: At the center of a pres. scandal herself, she left neighbors apology notes for the fuss she brought to the building in the '90s. Monica Lewinsky. 5: This Secretary of State often played chamber music piano accompanied by 4 friends in her apartment. Condoleezza Rice. Round 5. Category: Tv Is Really Cooking 1: Tortellini with Bolognese sauce and pizza Margherita were featured in "Mario Eats Italy", Mario being this guy. Mario Batali. 2: Bam! In 1990 he opened his first restaurant; bam! Later that decade, Food Network gave us the "Essence of" him. Emeril. 3: Chairman Kaga oversaw culinary "battles" that were held in Kitchen Stadium on this show. Iron Chef. 4: On this Fox show where you best not mess up the risotto, cooks vied to be the new head chef at a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. Hell's Kitchen. 5: Adam Richman hit New Orleans to eat 180 oysters in under an hour in a challenge on this Travel Channel show. Man v. Food. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and his development as both British and Britain in the following centuries. He first appeared along with Lewis Baboon (French) and Nicholas Frog (Dutch) in 1712 in a pamphlet that satirised the funding of the War of the Spanish Succession. The author was John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), a Scottish doctor and satirist who was part of the circle of Swift and Pope, and his John Bull was the English voter, overwhelmed by taxes that went not so much into the war itself but into the pockets of its financiers. For the next two centuries, Arbuthnot's John Bull was a gift for cartoonists and satirists, especially when they wanted to ridicule British governments for taking advantage of the people's patriotism. The image above is by William Charles, a Scottish engraver who emigrated to the United States, and dates from 1814 during the Anglo-American War of 1812. With Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London Miles Taylor Professor of British History and Society at Humboldt, University of Berlin And Mark Knights Professor of History at the University of Warwick Producer: Simon Tillotson

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the origin of this personification of the English everyman and his development as both British and Britain in the following centuries. He first appeared along with Lewis Baboon (French) and Nicholas Frog (Dutch) in 1712 in a pamphlet that satirised the funding of the War of the Spanish Succession. The author was John Arbuthnot (1667-1735), a Scottish doctor and satirist who was part of the circle of Swift and Pope, and his John Bull was the English voter, overwhelmed by taxes that went not so much into the war itself but into the pockets of its financiers. For the next two centuries, Arbuthnot's John Bull was a gift for cartoonists and satirists, especially when they wanted to ridicule British governments for taking advantage of the people's patriotism. The image above is by William Charles, a Scottish engraver who emigrated to the United States, and dates from 1814 during the Anglo-American War of 1812. With Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London Miles Taylor Professor of British History and Society at Humboldt, University of Berlin And Mark Knights Professor of History at the University of Warwick Producer: Simon Tillotson

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 528, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: 19Th Century Literature 1: "Knitting", "Still Knitting" and "The Knitting Done" are chapters in this 1859 novel. A Tale of Two Cities. 2: It may ring a bell that he had "a huge head sprouting red hair; between the two shoulders an enormous hump". the hunchback (of Notre Dame). 3: The title wrongdoing in this novel is the murder of a pawnbroker and her sister by Raskolnikov. Crime and Punishment. 4: The year before her death, 29-year-old Emily Bronte published this, her only novel. Wuthering Heights. 5: Published in 1849, "Redburn: His FIrst Voyage" was based on this author's first voyage as a cabin boy. Herman Melville. Round 2. Category: Green Beers 1: This Bremen beer's motto appropriately reads "Life beckons". Beck's. 2: Brittany Evans is the new icon for this beer that's named in honor of an old German monastery. St. Pauli's. 3: Dennis Hopper has a particular aversion to this Dutch beer in the movie "Blue Velvet". Heineken. 4: Brewed since 1615, this Dutch beer with a green bottle has a swingtop cap. Grolsch. 5: Tonight let it be this beer of Munich that's properly spelled with 2 umlauts. Löwenbräu. Round 3. Category: English Lit. 1: He's the legendary king in Tennyson's "Idylls of the King". King Arthur. 2: Thomas Hardy, who gave us "The Return of the Native", also wrote of this girl "of the d'Urbervilles". Tess. 3: Last name shared by "Murder in the Cathedral" author T .S. and "Adam Bede" author George. Eliot. 4: This Miss Marple creator was one of the 1st authors to be published in a Penguin paperback. Agatha Christie. 5: The final version of his "Paradise Lost" was published in 1674. Milton. Round 4. Category: Down Under 1: The ABA, Inc. in Sydney is an Australian association that gives lessons in how to throw these. Boomerangs. 2: It has webbed feet, no teeth or external ears, brown fur and a rubbery, duckbill-shaped muzzle. Platypus. 3: Walter Burley Griffin, an architect from Chicago, designed this capital city, site unseen. Canberra. 4: This now popular tourist attraction almost wrecked the Endeavour, Captain Cook's ship. Great Barrier Reef. 5: Over 309 of these are operating in the Barossa Valley, the Aussie equivalent of our Napa. Wineries. Round 5. Category: Documents 1: The U.S. government encourages traveling citizens to smile for their photos in these booklets. Passports. 2: Colorful term for a document allowing aliens to legally work in the United States. Green card. 3: "To take" this often means to sign a document forswearing liquor. The pledge. 4: After this proceeding is complete, a court issues the child a new birth certificate. Adoption. 5: Once, this document disposed of personal effects, while property was covered in the "last will". Testament. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

Art has been appropriated for military purposes throughout the 20th century. Camouflage was inspired by Cubism, Abstract art was used as anti-soviet propaganda and In the 1950's the CIA covertly funded literary magazines to service US Imperialism. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to the Homeschool Mom Collaborative!  The Homeschool Mom Collaborative is a podcast, that highlights the independent businesses, entrepreneurs, ministries and creative works of homeschool moms (and families) around the globe. The Homeschool Mom Collaborative was founded by 3 homeschool moms: Susan Hale, Natalie Vecchione and Steffanie Williams. In each episode, the Homeschool Mom Collaborative hopes to lift up the amazing achievements of those homeschool moms who embody the independent spirit of homeschooling. This episode features Steffanie Williams, Co-Founder of Homeschool Mom Collaborative. Steffanie Williams lives in Roanoke, VA. She has been married to her husband David for 34 wonderfully lived years. She is mom to Katie, Emily, and Mary Ruth. She is grandma to Noah David. After 18 years of homeschooling, she wrote "Eww... You Homeschool? Help for Successful Homeschooling" to share her journey and to encourage other homeschool moms. She is now in the empty nest stage of life, but she is still involved in the homeschool community, teaching 20th Century Literature and writing at an area hybrid school. EPISODE RESOURCES - Steffanie Williams - Author  Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Steffanie-Williams-Author-100322775116953 You can buy "Eww....You Homeschool" by Steffanie Williams wherever you buy your books and on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/Eww-You-Homeschool-Steffanie-Williams/dp/1633573737/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UXMBCZ75DWTO&keywords=eww+you+homeschool+steffanie+williams&qid=1652397759&sprefix=Eww+You+%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1   HOMESCHOOL MOM COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES -  If you'd like to be a guest / for more information, contact homeschoolmomcollaborative@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HomeschoolMomCollaborative Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/homeschoolmomcollaborative   If you like Homeschool Mom Collaborative...please like, follow and give a 5 star rating and review, on Apple, Podbean, Spotify &  wherever you find your podcasts!

Welcome to the Homeschool Mom Collaborative!  The Homeschool Mom Collaborative is a podcast, that highlights the independent businesses, entrepreneurs, ministries and creative works of homeschool moms (and families) around the globe. The Homeschool Mom Collaborative was founded by 3 homeschool moms: Susan Hale, Natalie Vecchione and Steffanie Williams. In each episode, the Homeschool Mom Collaborative hopes to lift up the amazing achievements of those homeschool moms who embody the independent spirit of homeschooling. This episode features Steffanie Williams, Co-Founder of Homeschool Mom Collaborative. Steffanie Williams lives in Roanoke, VA. She has been married to her husband David for 34 wonderfully lived years. She is mom to Katie, Emily, and Mary Ruth. She is grandma to Noah David. After 18 years of homeschooling, she wrote "Eww... You Homeschool? Help for Successful Homeschooling" to share her journey and to encourage other homeschool moms. She is now in the empty nest stage of life, but she is still involved in the homeschool community, teaching 20th Century Literature and writing at an area hybrid school. EPISODE RESOURCES - Steffanie Williams - Author  Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/Steffanie-Williams-Author-100322775116953 You can buy "Eww....You Homeschool" by Steffanie Williams wherever you buy your books and on Amazon at  https://www.amazon.com/Eww-You-Homeschool-Steffanie-Williams/dp/1633573737/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UXMBCZ75DWTO&keywords=eww+you+homeschool+steffanie+williams&qid=1652397759&sprefix=Eww+You+%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-1   HOMESCHOOL MOM COLLABORATIVE RESOURCES -  If you'd like to be a guest / for more information, contact homeschoolmomcollaborative@gmail.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HomeschoolMomCollaborative Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/homeschoolmomcollaborative   If you like Homeschool Mom Collaborative...please like, follow and give a 5 star rating and review, on Apple, Podbean, Spotify &  wherever you find your podcasts!

I spent some time with Charlotte Sussman recently talking about our shared passions of sailing and literature. Charlotte is a Professor of English at Duke and recently the author of Peopling the World. One website explains: Through a literary lens, Professor Charlotte Sussman examines the 18th-century shift in Britain's understanding of the value of human reproduction, the vacancy of the planet and the necessity of moving people around to fill its empty spaces. In Milton's 1667 “Paradise Lost,” Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a “race to fill the world,” a thought that consoles them after the fall. By 1798, the idea that the world would one day be entirely filled by people had become a nightmarish vision in Malthus's “Essay on the Principle of Population.” Sussman places these and other texts in the context of debates about scientific innovation, emigration, cultural memory and colonial settlement. Listen to Charlotte talk about her life, her dreams and how 18th Century literature is still very much relevant to the way we experience the world.

Hi there, National Poetry Month Extravaganza continues! Today I am arts calling Jared Beloff! About: Jared Beloff earned degrees at Rutgers University (BA in English) Johns Hopkins University (MA in English Literature, specializing in the novel and Romantic/18th Century Literature). Jared has been an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College, an English teacher and a teacher mentor in NYC public schools for 15 years. Jared is currently a peer reviewer for The Whale Road Review. His poetry can be found in Contrary Magazine, Barren Magazine, KGB Bar Lit, The Shore, Rise Up Review, Bending Genres and elsewhere. His work has been nominated for Best of the Net. He lives with his wife and two daughters in Queens, NY. www.jaredbeloff.com Click to purchase Marvelous Verses today!! For Jared's latest publications online, visit: https://www.jaredbeloff.com/publications Twitter: https://twitter.com/Read_Instead Thanks for coming on the show, Jared! -- Arts Calling is produced by Jaime Alejandro at cruzfolio.com. If you like the show: consider reviewing the podcast and sharing it with those who love the arts, your support truly makes a difference! Check out cruzfolio.com for more podcasts about the arts and original content! Make art. Much love, j

On Today’s Show: Introduction 0:00.000 Tim Recites 16th Century Literature 2:40.936 A Member Of The Trucker Convoy Breaks It Down For Us 4:07.739 Remembering Meade’s Enema 8:21.895 Meade’s Mid-Life Crisis 11:28.985 God Says Vladimir Putin Is The Good Guy, Here! 15:11.668 Baking Shit Brownies 21:29.357 Sign Up For The Sideshow! 27:15.914 When Your Breast Leak […] The post When Your Breasts Leak Blue Goo first appeared on Distorted View Daily.

Dominic is joined by the brilliant  John Bowen:  Professor of 19th Century Literature at the University of York. He is the author of Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit a book which focuses on Dickens' early novels. John's work has brought him in to close collaboration with many of the UK's leading cultural organisations: such as the BBC, British Library, and the V&A. He was also was an academic advisor to David Edgar's adaptation of A Christmas Carol for the RSC.In this episode they discuss Dickens' first historical novel set against the backdrop of the Gordon Riots of 1780. The 'forgotten' masterpiece that is Barnaby Rudge ...Support the show

In this episode, English professor Gary Tandy hosts author Joseph Pearce in a discussion about prominent Christian authors in the 20th century, their conversion stories, and how faith is revealed in fantasy literature. Why were the relationships between J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and other authors of their time significant in the world of literature?Joseph Pearce is an internationally acclaimed author of many books. He's also director of Book Publishing at the Augustine Institute, and editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative.Connect with Joseph's work here.Dr. Gary Tandy serves as chair of the Department of English and Theatre at George Fox University and teaches British Literature Survey, Shakespeare, Technical Writing, Studies in Writing, and Advanced Studies in British Literature. He's written and presented extensively on the works of C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and the Inklings. Gary's PhD is in rhetoric and writing from the University of Tulsa, where he also studied modern British literature and literary modernism. He earned his MA in English from The University of Tennessee, where his emphasis was early American literature.These podcasts are also all video recorded and on our YouTube channel! You can also visit our website at https://georgefox.edu/talks for more content like this.

This week, Grace welcomes Jessica Hooten Wilson to Old Books With Grace, to chat about her new book, The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints, and the power of literature to reveal the subtleties of the good life. Sometimes holiness can be alarming, bizarre, and fascinating... and novels and their novelists, like Flannery O'Connor, C.S. Lewis, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, can help us to conceptualize the holy life in all its difficulty and otherworldliness.

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On the 36th episode of EdUp EdTech, I got to chat with an amazing faculty member at Berkeley College, Dr. Jason Gulya. In this episode, Jason shares how learning more about the field of instructional design has helped him reflect on and improve his teaching methods making for a more student-centered learning experience. He drops plenty of knowledge bombs in this episode including a simple yet profound quote, "in the end, everyone just wants to learn." More About Jason Jason Gulya is a Professor of English at Berkeley College, a career-focused institution. His training is in 18th-Century Literature. More broadly, he researches the intersection between the worlds of college teaching, career preparation, and instructional design. In his mind, the first step needs to be breaking the silos between these disciplines, to think about how they do (and should) interact with one another. How to Connect Connect with Jason on LinkedIn Sponsorship: This episode was sponsored by ATTECS, LLC check out their website for more info about the fantastic services and support they can provide to your institution or organization. Connect with the host: Holly Owens Check Out Our Show's Podpage: https://www.podpage.com/edup-edtech-hosted-by-holly-owens/ Join the EdUp community at The EdUp Experience! Follow us the EdUp Experience - https://www.edupexperience.com/ We Make Education Your Business!

Gerry Canavan, Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University, joins Scott to discuss TNG’s “Masks” (S7E17). Topics include Brent Spiner’s relishing of his various roles, Capt. Picard’s leap of faith, and the fact that Star Trek writers really don’t know how computers work. Plus, this episode includes the return of everyone’s favorite segment: Pope Talk! Host Scott McNulty with Gerry Canavan.

Gerry Canavan, Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University, joins Scott to discuss TNG’s “Masks” (S7E17). Topics include Brent Spiner’s relishing of his various roles, Capt. Picard’s leap of faith, and the fact that Star Trek writers really don’t know how computers work. Plus, this episode includes the return of everyone’s favorite segment: Pope Talk! Scott McNulty with Gerry Canavan.

A Northern Irish writer - what does that label mean? Lucy Caldwell compares notes with Caroline Magennis about the way authors are charting change and setting down experience - from working class memoirs of life in Derry to the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Morrissey and others. And as we approach the centenary of the creation of Northern Ireland, Anne McElvoy talks to Roy Foster and Charles Townshend about the history and legacy of partition. Charles Townshend is Professor Emeritus of International History at Keele University, and Roy Foster is Professor and Honorary Fellow at Hertford College, University of Oxford. Amongst other titles, Roy Foster is the author of Vivid Faces: The Revolutionary Generation in Ireland, 1890-1923, and Charles Townshend's new book is The Partition: Ireland Divided, 1885-1925. Lucy Caldwell's new book is called Intimacies and is published in May, and she has also edited Being Various: New Irish Short Stories. In the interview she recommends books including the writing of Mary Beckett, The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Woman Writers from the North of Ireland edited by Sinéad Gleeson, and Inventory: A River, A City, A Family by Darran Anderson. Caroline Magennis is Reader in 20th and 21st Century Literature at the University of Salford, and her upcoming publication, Northern Irish Writing After the Troubles: Intimacies, Affects, Pleasures, will be available in August. Producer: Emma Wallace If you want more conversations with writers from Northern Ireland you can find the following episodes on the Free Thinking website: Sinéad Morrissey on winning the TS Eliot Prize in 2014 - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pdf10 Michael Longley talks about his poetry and winning the PEN Pinter prize - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b098hz1m Bernard MacClaverty talks to Anne McElvoy about depicting love and loss in a long relationship in his novel Midwinter Break - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09525cn Ruth Dudley Edwards looks at ideas about belonging - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h2g4 Roy Foster and Paul Muldoon are in conversation - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050xpsd

In an uncharacteristically serious episode, we discuss Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude, magical realism as resistance to oppressive forces, and the United Fruit Company's destructive power in Central and South American history. . Resources: Henry, A. (2018) “Struggling Against the Injustice: The Historical Context and Social Justice in Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude.” Oberhausen, L. (2014) “Empowering the Oppressed in 20th Century Literature through Magical Realism.” Sahraei, M. and Deiri, M. (2014) “Reflection of magical realism in Marquez‘s One hundred years of solitude and Moniru Ravanipur‘s Ahl-e Ghargh (The Drowned)." Rozak, R. (2017) “The Truth Behind Banana Republic.” Baltimore County History Labs Program, “Background on the Guatemalan Coup of 1954.” Music: "Dance Robot ACTIVATE" by Loyalty Freak Music. [All views expressed are our own and do not represent the opinions of any entity with which we are affiliated.]

In 2016 the CenterForLit team decided to turn on their microphones and dive into the Great Conversation. Five years and a hundred episodes later, we can’t imagine our company without BiblioFiles, and we are so grateful to the listeners who have made this show possible. Today we’re celebrating! Stay tuned for nostalgia, games, a chance to win, and a special announcement.Referenced Works:–BiblioFiles #41: The Late, Great Literary Analysis Debate with David Kern– BiblioFiles #19: An Interview with Gary Schmidt– BiblioFiles #15: Exploring Homer with Andrew Kern– BiblioFiles #64: Neil Postman, Literary Language, and Shakespearean Gore– BiblioFiles #86: Productivity and Quarantine –BiblioFiles #25: 20th and 21st Century Literature with Brian Wasko of Write At Home– BiblioFiles #13:Movie Adaptations of the Classics– BiblioFiles #47: Thunder Cake, Picture Books, and Identity – BiblioFiles #34: Karl Barth and Existentialism – BiblioFiles #81: Netflix’s The King and Literary Film Adaptations– Orbiting Jupiter by Gary Schmidt– Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky– To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf– Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel– Red Rising by Pierce BrownWe love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing i.andrews@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

The word 'swashbuckling' is often used to describe the novels of Alexandre Dumas the Elder, the creator of D'Artagnan and the Three Musketeers, the Count of Monte Cristo and the Man in the Iron Mask. But Dumas himself led a life as colourful as many of his gallery of rogues, villains and heroes. Having grown up in poverty, he found employment in the household of a future king of France. He was prolific on the page and pretty active away from it. At first with a series of highly successful plays and then with serialised novels, his production house churned out hundreds of thousands of pages of gripping narrative. He had pet projects like building a mansion and theatre, he had countless mistresses and he frequently found himself in legal disputes and on the run from debt collectors. In the 150th anniversary year of Dumas' death Rajan Datar explores the writer's life and work with Claudie Bernard, professor of French Literature, Thought and Culture at New York University; Daniel Desormeaux, professor of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; Sylvain Ledda, professor of 19th Century Literature at Rouen University in France; and Anne O'Neil-Henry, associate professor of French and Francophone Studies at Georgetown University in Washington. [Image: Alexandre Dumas the Elder. Credit: The Print Collector/Getty Images]

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October 26, 2020 Keri co-hosts along with special guest “Mystery Chris," who is off-camera and remains anonymous as he is in the category Joe Biden considers to not be a “real" black person: he voted for Trump in 2016 and plans to do so again. But in Chris' opinion, white SJWs “treat us like pets.” Keri and Chris discuss walking away from the Democrat Party and voting for Trump. They chat about systemic racism - does it exist? They go over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) being used by Social Media companies acting as publishers while hiding behind the legal protections it offers. How long can they get away with using the platform protections of Section 230 while censoring particular content and effectively acting as publishers? They then discuss how woke big corporations are now embraced by many on the left, the opposite of traditional leftists, and the similarities and differences between SJW ideology and other cults, such as Scientology. Keri highlights the recent Tampax announcement that not all people who have periods and use tampons are women, and the two discuss Chelsea Handler reminding 50 Cent he is black as a way to pressure him into voting for Biden. They contemplate the fact that a college degrees in Heteronormative Writings in 18th Century Literature exists, and finally talk about a women getting her dying Father to vote for Biden as one of his final acts and the left's celebration of the use of one's parents and children to push an ideology. Carter was unavailable today at the last minute due to neighborhood infrastructure problems. His neighborhood had a power outage. This alone doesn't stop him as he has a home generator to handle CA's rolling brownouts. But then a tree fell and took out his cable line, and with both problems he can't get fast enough internet to host. He was in chat however, with a low rate intermittent connection. Welcome to the Democratic People's Republic of California, which seems to have the power grid reliability of a third world country. LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW: CNN article, "Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter, and Google just days before the election": https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/tech/section-230-senate-hearing/index.html Tampax tweet from September: https://twitter.com/Tampax/status/1305952342504767491 Oreo tweet on pronoun "education": https://twitter.com/Oreo/status/1317833513773731840 Thanks for watching! Please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Follow us on the following social media channels...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Pick up some Unsafe Space merch at unsafespace.com! YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/UUcjW7G-5Eo

October 26, 2020 Keri co-hosts along with special guest “Mystery Chris," who is off-camera and remains anonymous as he is in the category Joe Biden considers to not be a “real" black person: he voted for Trump in 2016 and plans to do so again. But in Chris' opinion, white SJWs “treat us like pets.” Keri and Chris discuss walking away from the Democrat Party and voting for Trump. They chat about systemic racism - does it exist? They go over Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) being used by Social Media companies acting as publishers while hiding behind the legal protections it offers. How long can they get away with using the platform protections of Section 230 while censoring particular content and effectively acting as publishers? They then discuss how woke big corporations are now embraced by many on the left, the opposite of traditional leftists, and the similarities and differences between SJW ideology and other cults, such as Scientology. Keri highlights the recent Tampax announcement that not all people who have periods and use tampons are women, and the two discuss Chelsea Handler reminding 50 Cent he is black as a way to pressure him into voting for Biden. They contemplate the fact that a college degrees in Heteronormative Writings in 18th Century Literature exists, and finally talk about a women getting her dying Father to vote for Biden as one of his final acts and the left’s celebration of the use of one’s parents and children to push an ideology. Carter was unavailable today at the last minute due to neighborhood infrastructure problems. His neighborhood had a power outage. This alone doesn't stop him as he has a home generator to handle CA’s rolling brownouts. But then a tree fell and took out his cable line, and with both problems he can’t get fast enough internet to host. He was in chat however, with a low rate intermittent connection. Welcome to the Democratic People’s Republic of California, which seems to have the power grid reliability of a third world country. LINKS REFERENCED IN THE SHOW: CNN article, "Conservatives push to discredit Facebook, Twitter, and Google just days before the election": https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/25/tech/section-230-senate-hearing/index.html Tampax tweet from September: https://twitter.com/Tampax/status/1305952342504767491 Oreo tweet on pronoun "education": https://twitter.com/Oreo/status/1317833513773731840 Thanks for watching! Please don't forget to like, subscribe, and share. Follow us on the following social media channels...at least until we get banned: Twitter: @unsafespace Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsafepage Instagram: @_unsafespace Gab: @unsafe Minds: @unsafe Parler: @unsafespace Telegram Chat: https://t.me/joinchat/H4OUclXTz4xwF9EapZekPg Pick up some Unsafe Space merch at unsafespace.com! YouTube link to video version of this episode: https://youtu.be/UUcjW7G-5Eo

Ways to Practice Shadow Work From @the.holistic.psychologist on Instagram 1. Notice when you have feelings of jealous and ask yourself: What do I feel “have” that I feel I’m lacking? 2. Notice how often you give advice and why you are giving it (There will be clear patterns) 3. Journal or take notes in your phone daily around how you speak about yourself (this helps you understand your care and limiting beliefs) 4. Become aware of the way you speak about others (this helps you better understand any attachment trauma) Citations  Dana Brooke Thurmond. “The influence of Carl Jung’s Archetype of the Shadow On Early 20th Century Literature. https://scholarship.rollins.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1031&context=mls (accessed on August 28, 2020) Ruiz, M. (2017). MASTERY OF SELF: A Toltec guide to personal freedom. Retrieved October 4, 2020. Jung, C.J. (1959) Good and evil in analytical philosophy. Jung, C.J. (1938). Psychology and religion. Binghamton, NY: The Vail-Ballou Press, Inc. Siegel, R.D. (2010). The mindfulness solution: everyday practices for everyday problems. New York, NY: The Guilford Press. Laura K. Schenck, Ph.D. Mindful Muse. “Identity & Accept Your Shadow Self”. https://www.mindfulnessmuse.com/individual-differences/identify-accept-your-shadow-self (accessed on August 28, 2020)

The prize winning writer Richard Ford talks to Andrew Marr about his latest collection of short stories, Sorry for Your Trouble. Irish America is Ford’s landscape, and his characters contemplate ageing, grief, love and marriage: ‘great moments in small lives’. Ford was born in Jackson, Mississippi and has spent many years living in New Orleans – his characters, like himself, live far from the political centre of America. Professor of 19th Century Literature and Thought, Ruth Livesey, is also interested in life away from the centre in her study of provincialism in Britain. Condescension towards small town life can be traced back to the Victorian period. But the writer George Eliot, who spent her early life in Nuneaton in the Midlands, argued that ‘‘art had a responsibility to show a provincial life could be just as full of insight and moral courage as one on the great world stage.’ Producer: Katy Hickman

Joyce Chen's Senbazuru won 2020's Young Romantic Poetry Prize. The poem was read by Dinah Roe, Reader in 19th Century Literature at Oxford Brookes University, as part of our online awards ceremony. ----more---- Listen to Dinah discuss Christina Rossetti's 'On Keats' as part of our 'Writ in Water' series. Follow her on Twitter @preraphsrule.  Read about 2021's Keats-Shelley Prize. Read about 2021's Young Romantics Prize. Subscribe to the Keats-Shelley Podcast for all new episodes or Follow us on Spotify. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Follow us on Instagram Subscribe to us on YouTube

The dragons have often said that historical fiction fulfils the same needs as SFF for many people - intricate world building, the strange familiarity, the sense of visiting another place where the rules are completely different and doing so safely, and a rich, immersive story. For this, reason the Period or Costume Drama is amongst the most popular of genre adaptations. Following on from a previous episode on adaptation and reimaginings of speculative fiction, this week Jules and Madeleine look at the pros and cons of Period Drama; how historically accurate do they need to be? How faithful to the source material? And is it possible to breach the centuries between the audience a 19th C novel was intended for and a more modern audience? Under examination this week - Ivanhoe, Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre, Gentleman Jack and many more.  Title Music: Ecstasy by Smiling Cynic

In a programme first broadcast in May 2019, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) Gothic story of a Swiss natural philosopher, Victor Frankenstein, and the creature he makes from parts of cadavers and which he then abandons, horrified by his appearance, and never names. Rejected by all humans who see him, the monster takes his revenge on Frankenstein, killing those dear to him. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18, prompted by a competition she had with Byron and her husband Percy Shelley to tell a ghost story while they were rained in in the summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. The image of Mary Shelley, above, was first exhibited in 1840. With Karen O'Brien Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford Michael Rossington Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University And Jane Thomas Professor of Victorian and Early 20th Century Literature at the University of Hull Producer: Simon Tillotson This programme is a repeat

In a programme first broadcast in May 2019, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Mary Shelley's (1797-1851) Gothic story of a Swiss natural philosopher, Victor Frankenstein, and the creature he makes from parts of cadavers and which he then abandons, horrified by his appearance, and never names. Rejected by all humans who see him, the monster takes his revenge on Frankenstein, killing those dear to him. Shelley started writing Frankenstein when she was 18, prompted by a competition she had with Byron and her husband Percy Shelley to tell a ghost story while they were rained in in the summer of 1816 at the Villa Diodati by Lake Geneva. The image of Mary Shelley, above, was first exhibited in 1840. With Karen O'Brien Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford Michael Rossington Professor of Romantic Literature at Newcastle University And Jane Thomas Professor of Victorian and Early 20th Century Literature at the University of Hull Producer: Simon Tillotson This programme is a repeat

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and social impact of coffee. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the Ottoman Empire before reaching Western Europe where, in the 17th century, coffee houses were becoming established. There, caffeinated customers stayed awake for longer and were more animated, and this helped to spread ideas and influence culture. Coffee became a colonial product, grown by slaves or indentured labour, with coffea robusta replacing arabica where disease had struck, and was traded extensively by the Dutch and French empires; by the 19th century, Brazil had developed into a major coffee producer, meeting demand in the USA that had grown on the waggon trails. With Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London Markman Ellis Professor of 18th Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London And Jonathan Morris Professor in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire Producer: Simon Tillotson

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history and social impact of coffee. From its origins in Ethiopia, coffea arabica spread through the Ottoman Empire before reaching Western Europe where, in the 17th century, coffee houses were becoming established. There, caffeinated customers stayed awake for longer and were more animated, and this helped to spread ideas and influence culture. Coffee became a colonial product, grown by slaves or indentured labour, with coffea robusta replacing arabica where disease had struck, and was traded extensively by the Dutch and French empires; by the 19th century, Brazil had developed into a major coffee producer, meeting demand in the USA that had grown on the waggon trails. With Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London Markman Ellis Professor of 18th Century Studies at Queen Mary University of London And Jonathan Morris Professor in Modern History at the University of Hertfordshire Producer: Simon Tillotson

Gerry Canavan, Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University, joins Scott to discuss VOY’s “Human Error” (S7E18).Topics include the ethics of using the Holodeck to generate simulations of your crewmates, what happens when you sleep in the Holodeck, and lots more Holodeck talk. Host Scott McNulty with Gerry Canavan.

In Sunnydale this week, Spike shrinks all of his clothing, we confirm that Buffy is a Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius, and Kristin and Jenny THROW DOWN on their differing opinions of Riley Finn. Also, Forest is still in love with Riley, Willow makes a great joke about 19th Century Literature, and Percy is A JERK! We are here a day early to tell you to go and VOTE today in the midterm elections, and to discuss S4E11: Doomed!! LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com/buffering Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com, everyoneisgay.com, mykidisgay.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram HOT HOT TIPS We'll be at PODCON Jan 19th & 20th in Seattle! IRL tickets (and virtual tickets) available now at podcon.com! We'll also be at The Vampire Ball in London Nov 30th through Dec 2nd (along with James Marsters, Julie Benz, and more!!) - tickets & info at starfury.co.uk! We have socks! We have a new Buffy Forever t-shirt!! We have vinyl! We have SO MANY THINGS AHHH: Visit bufferingthevampireslayer.com and click SHOP! NEW PATREON LEVEL & GIVEAWAYS: Head on over to patreon.com/bufferingcast HELP US TRANSCRIBE over at https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/transcriptions Logo: Kristine Thune (kristinethune.com) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In Sunnydale this week, Spike shrinks all of his clothing, we confirm that Buffy is a Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius, and Kristin and Jenny THROW DOWN on their differing opinions of Riley Finn. Also, Forest is still in love with Riley, Willow makes a great joke about 19th Century Literature, and Percy is A JERK! We are here a day early to tell you to go and VOTE today in the midterm elections, and to discuss S4E11: Doomed!! LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs: @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com/buffering Kristin Russo: @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com, everyoneisgay.com, mykidisgay.com Buffering the Vampire Slayer: @bufferingcast on twitter, facebook, and instagram HOT HOT TIPS We'll be at PODCON Jan 19th & 20th in Seattle! IRL tickets (and virtual tickets) available now at podcon.com! We'll also be at The Vampire Ball in London Nov 30th through Dec 2nd (along with James Marsters, Julie Benz, and more!!) - tickets & info at starfury.co.uk! We have socks! We have a new Buffy Forever t-shirt!! We have vinyl! We have SO MANY THINGS AHHH: Visit bufferingthevampireslayer.com and click SHOP! NEW PATREON LEVEL & GIVEAWAYS: Head on over to patreon.com/bufferingcast HELP US TRANSCRIBE over at https://www.bufferingthevampireslayer.com/transcriptions Logo: Kristine Thune (kristinethune.com)

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of William Morris, known in his lifetime for his poetry and then his contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement, and increasingly for his political activism. He felt the world had given in to drudgery and ugliness and he found inspiration in the time before industrialisation, in the medieval life which was about fellowship and association and ways of working which resisted the division of labour and allowed the worker to exercise his or her imagination. Seeing a disconnection between art and society, his solution was revolution which in his view was the only way to reset their relationship. The image above is from the Strawberry Thief wallpaper design by William Morris. With Ingrid Hanson Lecturer in 18th and 19th Century Literature at the University of Manchester Marcus Waithe University Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College And Jane Thomas Professor of Victorian and Early 20th Century Literature at the University of Hull Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of William Morris, known in his lifetime for his poetry and then his contribution to the Arts and Crafts movement, and increasingly for his political activism. He felt the world had given in to drudgery and ugliness and he found inspiration in the time before industrialisation, in the medieval life which was about fellowship and association and ways of working which resisted the division of labour and allowed the worker to exercise his or her imagination. Seeing a disconnection between art and society, his solution was revolution which in his view was the only way to reset their relationship. The image above is from the Strawberry Thief wallpaper design by William Morris. With Ingrid Hanson Lecturer in 18th and 19th Century Literature at the University of Manchester Marcus Waithe University Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Magdalene College And Jane Thomas Professor of Victorian and Early 20th Century Literature at the University of Hull Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Racial and religious prejudice, persecution and the complexities of assimilation, forced 19th and 20th century writers and thinkers such as Kafka, Proust, Zweig, Némirovsky and Roth, to confront their Jewish identities in profound and often controversial ways. Our panel, writer George Prochnik, Professor Susan Suleiman, and curator of European collections at the NLI, Stefan Litt, elucidate.  Sponsored by the National Library of Israel 

Dr. Tobias WIlson-Bates closes out our 3 part series on World-Building in Science Fiction. Today, Dr. Bates focus is on time travel and technology in world-building. Dr. Bates has a PHD from University of Davis California, studied 19th Century Literature, with focus on novels, specifically on time and technology. He’s now a Marion L. Brittain Post Doctorate Fellow and teaches classes on Time Travel and Robotics at GA Tech.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689), who made her name and her living as a playwright, poet and writer of fiction under the Restoration. Virginia Woolf wrote of her: ' All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds'. Behn may well have spent some of her early life in Surinam, the setting for her novel Oroonoko, and there are records of her working in the Netherlands as a spy for Charles II. She was loyal to the Stuart kings, and refused to write a poem on the coronation of William of Orange. She was regarded as an important writer in her lifetime and inspired others to write, but fell out of favour for two centuries after her death when her work was seen as too bawdy, the product of a disreputable age. The image above is from the Yale Center for British Art and is titled 'Aphra Behn, by Sir Peter Lely, 1618-1680' With Janet Todd Former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University Ros Ballaster Professor of 18th Century Literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford and Claire Bowditch Post-doctoral Research Associate in English and Drama at Loughborough University Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aphra Behn (1640-1689), who made her name and her living as a playwright, poet and writer of fiction under the Restoration. Virginia Woolf wrote of her: ' All women together, ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds'. Behn may well have spent some of her early life in Surinam, the setting for her novel Oroonoko, and there are records of her working in the Netherlands as a spy for Charles II. She was loyal to the Stuart kings, and refused to write a poem on the coronation of William of Orange. She was regarded as an important writer in her lifetime and inspired others to write, but fell out of favour for two centuries after her death when her work was seen as too bawdy, the product of a disreputable age. The image above is from the Yale Center for British Art and is titled 'Aphra Behn, by Sir Peter Lely, 1618-1680' With Janet Todd Former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University Ros Ballaster Professor of 18th Century Literature at Mansfield College, University of Oxford and Claire Bowditch Post-doctoral Research Associate in English and Drama at Loughborough University Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Red reads and reviews this classic of 19th Century Literature.

Dr. Tobias WIlson-Bates closes out our 3 part series on World-Building in Science Fiction. Today, Dr. Bates focus is on time travel and technology in world-building. Dr. Bates has a PHD from University of Davis California, studied 19th Century Literature, with focus on novels, specifically on time and technology. He’s now a Marion Brittan Post Doctorate Fellow and teaches classes on Time Travel and Robotics at GA Tech.

There are just so many wonderful people in our circles, but every once and a great while you run into someone who seems more like a lost family member than a chance acquaintance. That's how we feel about this week's guest, Brian Wasko, owner of the popular WriteAtHome program for homeschoolers. So when it was time to navigate the dicey waters of modern literature, we turned to our dear and knowledgable friend to help us sail the seas. Referenced Materials:–WriteAtHome.com–Ulysses by James Joyce–No Country for Old Men, Blood Meredian, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy–Moby Dick by Herman Melville–Homer's Illiad–My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George–The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain–The Elsie Dinsmore series by Martha Finley–To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee We love hearing your questions and comments! You can contact us by emailing adam@centerforlit.com, or you can visit our website www.centerforlit.com to find even more ways to participate in the conversation.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who, from a non-conformist background in Norwich, became one of the best known writers in the C19th. She had a wide range of interests and used a new, sociological method to observe the world around her, from religion in Egypt to slavery in America and the rights of women everywhere. She popularised writing about economics for those outside the elite and, for her own popularity, was invited to the coronation of Queen Victoria, one of her readers. With Valerie Sanders Professor of English at the University of Hull Karen O'Brien Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford And Ella Dzelzainis Lecturer in 19th Century Literature at Newcastle University Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Harriet Martineau who, from a non-conformist background in Norwich, became one of the best known writers in the C19th. She had a wide range of interests and used a new, sociological method to observe the world around her, from religion in Egypt to slavery in America and the rights of women everywhere. She popularised writing about economics for those outside the elite and, for her own popularity, was invited to the coronation of Queen Victoria, one of her readers. With Valerie Sanders Professor of English at the University of Hull Karen O'Brien Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford And Ella Dzelzainis Lecturer in 19th Century Literature at Newcastle University Producer: Simon Tillotson.

Early 20th-century literature and social sciences contested with one another over gender formations. While social sciences created taxonomies of normalised and medicalised difference, modernist literature simultaneously validated the autonomous particular that defies categorization.Characters as gender misfits countered an imposed social science model, instead emphasising individuality. Close readings from the poetry of T.S. Eliot, Wilfred Owen, W.D. Yeats and Stevie Smith document this literary struggle with the contemporaneous social sciences.Part of the 'American Perspectives' Fulbright Series.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/cultural-misfits-gender-in-early-twentieth-century-literatureGresham College has been giving free public lectures since 1597. This tradition continues today with all of our five or so public lectures a week being made available for free download from our website. There are currently over 1,700 lectures free to access or download from the website.Website: http://www.gresham.ac.ukTwitter: http://twitter.com/GreshamCollegeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/greshamcollege

Gena Asher hosts an hour-long interview with Christoph Irmscher, professor of English at Indiana University in Bloomington.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science. During the eighteenth century the opportunities for women to gain a knowledge of science were minimal. Universities and other institutions devoted to research were the preserve of men. Yet many important contributions to the science of the Enlightenment were made by women. These ranged from major breakthroughs like those of the British astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet, to important translations of scientific literature such as Emilie du Chatelet's French version of Newton's Principia - and all social classes were involved, from the aristocratic amateur botanists to the women artisans who worked in London's workshops manufacturing scientific instruments. The image above, of Emilie du Chatelet, is attributed to Maurice Quentin de La Tour.WithPatricia Fara Senior Tutor at Clare College, University of CambridgeKaren O'Brien Professor of English at the University of WarwickJudith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of LondonProducer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women in Enlightenment science. During the eighteenth century the opportunities for women to gain a knowledge of science were minimal. Universities and other institutions devoted to research were the preserve of men. Yet many important contributions to the science of the Enlightenment were made by women. These ranged from major breakthroughs like those of the British astronomer Caroline Herschel, the first woman to discover a comet, to important translations of scientific literature such as Emilie du Chatelet's French version of Newton's Principia - and all social classes were involved, from the aristocratic amateur botanists to the women artisans who worked in London's workshops manufacturing scientific instruments. The image above, of Emilie du Chatelet, is attributed to Maurice Quentin de La Tour. With Patricia Fara Senior Tutor at Clare College, University of Cambridge Karen O'Brien Professor of English at the University of Warwick Judith Hawley Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London Producer: Thomas Morris.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most brilliant and shocking satires ever written in English – Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal. Masquerading as an attempt to end poverty in Ireland once and for all, a Modest Proposal is a short pamphlet that draws the reader into a scheme for economic and industrial horror. Published anonymously but written by Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal lays bare the cruel presumptions, unchecked prejudice, the politics and the poverty of the 18th century, but it also reveals, perhaps more than anything else, the character and the mind of Swift himself.With John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London; Judith Hawley, Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and Ian McBride, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at King's College London.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most brilliant and shocking satires ever written in English – Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. Masquerading as an attempt to end poverty in Ireland once and for all, a Modest Proposal is a short pamphlet that draws the reader into a scheme for economic and industrial horror. Published anonymously but written by Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal lays bare the cruel presumptions, unchecked prejudice, the politics and the poverty of the 18th century, but it also reveals, perhaps more than anything else, the character and the mind of Swift himself.With John Mullan, Professor of English at University College London; Judith Hawley, Professor of 18th Century Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London and Ian McBride, Senior Lecturer in the History Department at King’s College London.