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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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Monday May 23, 2022
Monday May 23, 2022
Part One: Jane Austen. 0:00—Free indirect discourse and character. 5:15—Implied author. 6:33—Publication and reception. 11:36—Henrietta (“Harriet”) Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough. 15:42: Reception continued. 22:00—The marriage plot. 26:55—Interlude.
Part Two: The Silver Fork Novel. 32:08—Pride and Prejudice and Romance and Reality. 41:55: Regency romance. 45:27—Silver Fork criticized. 49:11—Commercial literary culture. 52:50: Disraeli, Vivian Grey. 54:35: Panic of 1825. 57:34: Guide for the middle class. 1:02:12—Social unrest. 1:05:03—Silver fork tarnished.
Interludes: Franz Schubert, Symphony No. 2 (1815), performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, December 20, 1949.
Illustration: Miss L.E. Landon, "engraved for Burton's Gentlemen's Magazine" (1838), Jackson Collection of American Lithographs," Philadelphia Free Library.
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