801 Persuasion by Jane Austen (Revisited)

Om avsnittet

As the History of Literature Podcast Tour rolls through literary England, Jacke and Emma are revisiting some past episodes with connections to what they're seeing and doing. Today, they're in Bath, which naturally means spending some time with Jane Austen. In this episode, which first ran in April 2023, Jacke considers Austen's Persuasion, a novel of missed opportunities and second chances. Why did Harold Bloom call this "the perfect novel"? And why did Virginia Woolf say, "In Persuasion, Jane Austen is beginning to discover that the world is larger, more mysterious, and more romantic than she supposed"?

(This is the final episode of the tour: new episodes will resume next Monday!)

Help support the show at ⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/literature⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠historyofliterature.com/donate⁠⁠⁠. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature⁠⁠⁠.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Om avsnittet

Fler avsnitt

834 Shakespeare's Scholars (with Sean Keilen) | My Last Book with Nan Z. Da

833 Galahad and the Grail (with Malcolm Guite)

832 Stendhal [Revisited]

831 Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (with Rachel Pastan) | My Last Book with David Denby

830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A Literary Tribute to Dolly Parton

829 Charlotte Brontë and Her Biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (with Susan Dunne) | My Last Book with Travis Franks | The Odyssey Kerfuffle

828 Confucius (with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) | Celia Bookshop! (with Rachel Pastan) | Jacke in Taiwan

827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare

826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washington Irving and Other "Minor Writers" | Notes from the History of Literature Podcast Tour!

825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley