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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 Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Chapters 23-44. 0:00-Sexuality & subservience. 5:57-Women & marriage. 7:15-Annabella teases & torments. 8:45-Double standard. 12:00-Branwell. 13:02-Mortality & morality. 15:50-Universal salvation. 16:44-Annabella. 18:30-The affair. 20:48-Helen vs. Annabella. 22:08-Piano playing. 26:00-Monstrous Annabella. 32:00-Admirable Annabella. 33:27-Trapped. 34:40-Coarse masculinity. 36:41-Escape.
Chapters 45-53. 38:51-Gilbert’s letter. 39:37-Helen nurses Huntingdon. 42:42-Helen & Gilbert reunited. 44:27-Literary legacy.
Text: Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, 1848. Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.
Interludes: Frederic Chopin, Posthumous Waltz, no. 19 in A minor (1847), performed by Harald Vetter.
Illustration: Possible photo of Anne Bronte. For more information: https://brontesisters.co.uk/
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