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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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Sunday Oct 01, 2023
Sunday Oct 01, 2023
0:00—Digressive pleasure. 1:14—From Episode 17: Balzac, Cousin Bette. 5:43—Syntactic tangles. 6:47: From Episode 13: The Sensation Novel & Episode 8: Epistolary and Sentimental. 8:57—British imperialism. 13:04—From Episode 14: Broughton, Lady Audley’s Secret. 15:12—Allusions of empire. 16:52—From Episode 7: Broughton, Cometh Up as a Flower. 26:12: Braddon’s reaction. 26:32—From Episode 14: Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret. 31:47—Mutiny & sensation. 32:04—From Episode 13: Braddon, Lady Audley’s Secret. 40:33—French imperialism. 41:27—From Episode 17: Balzac, Cousin Bette. 50:30—Interlude.
51:59—Anti-Semitism in Britain. 53:13—From Episode 4: Wood, East Lynne. 1:00:22—From Episode 7: Broughton Cometh Up as a Flower. 1:02:00—Anti-Semitism in France. 1:02:48—From Episode 19: Balzac, Cousin Bette. 1:09:53—Closing: politics & the novel. 1:12:11—From Episode 12: Walter Scott and the Historical Novel, Part Two.
Interludes: Anton Bruckner, Symphony # 8 (1890), performed by the Vienna Philharmonic, 1944.
Illustration: Leonid Pasternak, The Passion of Creation (detail, date unknown), Wikimedia.
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