The History of Literature
Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate
Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at [email protected].
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Episodes (1854)
828 Confucius (with Mark Csizkszentmihalyi) | Celia Bookshop! (with Rachel Pasta...
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827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Si...
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826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washing...
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825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David W...
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824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The Claire Clairmont Story (with Emil...
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823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Shakespeare in a Divided America (wi...
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822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | My Last Book with Douglas Clark
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821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) | Wonderland Books! (with Amy Joy...
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820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Sonja Tiernan)
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819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of HOT Literati | My...
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818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon
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817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mar...
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816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel...
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815 Paddy Chayefsky
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814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Gho...
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813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli
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812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence
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811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey
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810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)
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809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Palin...
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808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the...
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807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky a...
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806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan
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805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]
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804 Shakespeare and Loss (with Sarah Beckwith) | My Last Book with Caroline Lea
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803 Literature, Authorship, and the Rise of AI (with Eric Burgess) | My Last Boo...
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802 Colette (with Kathleen Antonioli) | My Last Book with Colombe Schneck
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801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)
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800 Shakespeare in Jest (with Indira Ghose) | My Last Book with Nicholson Baker
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799.5 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings (Revisited) | My Last Book with Julie Gilb...
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799 Emma Smith and Shakespeare's First Folio (Revisited)
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798.5 Thinking Through Shakespeare (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Ra...
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798 Emma Smith and Portable Magic - A History of Books and Their Readers (Revisi...
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797 Marion Turner and Chaucer (Revisited)
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796 Marion Turner and The Wife of Bath (Revisited)
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795 Will Tosh and Queer Shakespeare (Revisited)
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794 E.T.A. Hoffmann (with Ritchie Robertson) | My Last Book with Gerri Kimber
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793 The Secret Order of Shandeans: Laurence Sterne in Early Soviet Russia (with...
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792 Death and Decay in Early Modern Lyric Poetry (with Eileen Sperry) | My Last...
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791 Emilia Lanier (a.k.a Aemilia Bassano Lanyer) Revisited
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790 Madness and Myth (with Natasha Joukovsky) | My Last Book with Kimberly Lau
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789 The 25 Greatest Books of All Time (with Mike Palindrome) | My Last Book with...
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788 John Ruskin (with Bob Blaisdell) | My Last Book with Francesca Wade
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787 Why Poetry with Matthew Zapruder Encore
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786 Cherokee Novelist and Poet John Rollin Ridge (with Travis Franks)
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785 Literature in an Age of Anti-Immigration Sentiment (with Daniel Olivas) | My...
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784 Marcus Aurelius: Philosopher-King (with William O. Stephens)
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783 Southern Imagining (with Elleke Boehmer) | My Last Book with John McMurtrie
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782 Consent in the Regency Novel (with Zoë McGee)
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781 Laurie Frankel's Enormous Wings | My Last Book with Rhodri Lewis
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