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The History of Literature Podcast

The History of Literature Podcast

Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. (Episodes are not in chronological order - feel free to jump in wherever you'd like!)

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705 Runaway Poets - How the Brownings Fell in Love (And Why It Matters)
May 28, 2025

705 Runaway Poets - How the Brownings Fell in Love (And Why It Matters)

Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) was one of the most prolific and accomplished poets of the Victorian age, an inspiration to Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and countless others. And yet, her life was full of cloi...
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704 Butterflies Regained
May 25, 2025

704 Butterflies Regained

Poetry, butterflies, and original music oh my! With some help from poets Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, along with original music by composer Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal, Jacke tackles the topic of...
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703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey
May 19, 2025

703 D.H. Lawrence (with David Ellis) | My Last Book with Dorian Lynskey

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) is one of the most famous novelists of his era - and one of the most difficult to pin down. Was he a tasteless, avant-garde pornographer? Or the greatest imaginative novelist of his generation (as E....
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702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!
May 15, 2025

702 Writing in the World of Jane Austen (with D.G. Rampton) | Disaster at the Book Festival!

Jacke talks to D.G. Rampton , Australia's Queen of the Regency Romance, about her love for the novels of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer - and what it's like for a twenty-first-century novelist to set her novels in the early-...
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701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick!
May 12, 2025

701 Emerson's Struggle with Slavery (with Kenneth Sacks) | My Last Book with Victoria Namkung | We Had Sex Inside Moby-Dick!

For several decades, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was perhaps the most prominent writer and intellectual in America. As an advocate of personal freedom living in Massachusetts, surrounded by passionate abolitionists, one m...
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700 - Butterflies at Rest
May 5, 2025

700 - Butterflies at Rest

Returning to some devastating news after a trip to Paris, Jacke searches for lost time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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