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A professor of English talks about 19th Century novels: plot summary, literary analysis, author biography, historical and cultural context. Each episode closely examines one 19th Century novel.
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Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
0:00—Methodology. 8:40—New Criticism. 9:10—Context. 10:10—Repression. 10:35—From Episode 10: Historicizing & Analyzing the Gothic. 16:37—Repression & Ideology. 17:42—From Episode 14: India in Lady Audley’s Secret. 21:18—Repetition. 22:32—From Episode 16: Fire imagery in Lady Audley’s Secret. 32:14—Interlude.
32:48—Fear of the novel. 33:33—From Episode 8: Inferiority of the novel. 37:26—Attacking novel genres. 37:52—From Episode 10: Attacking the Gothic. 47:40—After the Gothic. 47:59—From Episode 9: Attacking the Silver Fork. 53:00—Mid-Victorian vogue. 53:18—From Episode 13: Attacking the Sensation Novel. 1:08:52—Novel fears.
Interludes: Niccolo Paganini, 24 Caprices, peformed by Michael Rabin, 1958.
Illustration: Firs Zhuralev, The Clerk, 1884 (detail), Wikipedia.
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