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The History of Literature

The History of Literature


The History of Literature

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599 episodes
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English
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Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.
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Episodes1 - 10 of 599 episodes

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620 Necromantics (with Renee Fox) | Herman Hesse on What We Learn from Trees

What was the deal with the Victorians and their obsession with reanimating corpses? How...

64 minutes
Jul 11, 2024

619 Fred Waitzkin on Kerouac, Hemingway, and His New Novel | My Last Book with Michael Blanding

Novelist Fred Waitzkin (Searching for Bobby Fischer) stops by to discuss Jack Kerouac, ...

56 minutes
Jul 08, 2024

618 A Year of Women's Diaries (with Sarah Gristwood) | Sharon Olds | My Last Book with Suzanne Scanlon

Women haven't always been given an equal chance to contribute to literature - but they ...

52 minutes
Jul 01, 2024

617 Politics and Grace in Early Modern Literature (with Deni Kasa) | Mike Recommends... James Baldwin! | My Last Book with Carlos Allende

Early modern poets - John Milton, Edmund Spenser, Aemilia Lanyer, Abraham Cowley - live...

72 minutes
Jun 27, 2024

616 Madwomen and Literature (with Suzanne Scanlon) | Sylvia Plath | My Last Book with Adhar Noor Desai

The relationship between literature and "madwomen" has deep roots. In this episode, Jac...

71 minutes
Jun 24, 2024

615 Nicholson Baker | My Last Book with Vera Kutizinski and Anthony Reed

What a treat! First, Jacke talks to Nicholson Baker, an author he's been reading for th...

79 minutes
Jun 17, 2024

614 Family Matters (with Bill Eville) | Fatherhood in Three Poems | Storytime with Jacke

Families can provide wonderful material for a writer, but they can also be tricky to na...

83 minutes
Jun 13, 2024

613 Celebrating the Book-Makers (with Adam Smyth) | My Last Book with Christopher de Hamel

Books are beloved objects, earning lots of praise as amazing pieces of technology and e...

61 minutes
Jun 10, 2024

612 Finding Margaret Fuller (with Allison Pataki) | My Last Book with James Marcus

Fearless and fiercely intelligent, the nineteenth-century American feminist Margaret Fu...

57 minutes
Jun 03, 2024

611 John Buchan (with Ursula Buchan) | My Last Book with Marsha Gordon | A Hemingway Letter

Scottish writer John Buchan is perhaps best known for his pioneering thriller The Thirt...

66 minutes
May 30, 2024