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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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Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Chapters 1-10: 0:00—Tiresome ladies. 4:40—Meeting Dick. 6:35—Lestrange family history. 8:00—Fortune’s wheel. 8:50—Cottonopolis. 12:18—Nell, a gawky young stranger. 14:25—Dick’s severe Greek beauty. 17:25—Unmaidenly behavior. 18:40—Without a mother. 20:00—Poor, naughty, handsome wolf. 22:43—Too much clingingness. 24:05—Dating Victorians. 25:12—Broughton bio. 28:13—Rhoda writes. 31:08—The facts (and fiction) of life. 33:36—Poor little pussycat. 35:42—Sir Hugh. 37:26—Interlude.
Chapters 11-19: 38:11—Jaded realist Dolly. 40:03—Class consciousness. 42:15—The Coxes. 46:04—Dog pictures. 48:15—Dick, Dolly, and dogcart. 52:43—Nell & Hugh visit a pub. 57:12—Nell bares her arm. 1:00:39—Sexual deviance. 1:00:52—Horribly honeymoonish. 1:04:31—Newfoundlands. 1:07:36—Dog & hyena & tigress. 1:09:40—Closing.
Text: Rhoda Broughton, Cometh Up a Flower. 1867. Broadview, 2010.
Interludes: Charles Guonod, Romeo and Juliet (1867), performed by Opera National de Paris, 1953.
Illustration: Rhoda Broughton (detail), National Portrait Gallery.
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