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On the Turbulent Life and Dramatic Death of Yukio Mishima

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
March 8, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the Brief Life and Towering Accomplishments of Lorraine Hansberry

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
March 1, 2021  By History of Literature
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Anna North on Reimagining a Wild West… That’s Good to Mothers

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson
February 22, 2021  By History of Literature
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On the Lovability of Keats

Anahid Nersessian Talks to Jacke Wilson on the History of Literature Podcast
February 16, 2021  By History of Literature
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Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
February 8, 2021  By History of Literature
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Searching for Mr. Darcy in Jane Austen’s Would-Be Suitor, Tom Lefroy

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
February 1, 2021  By History of Literature
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‘There Are No Slaveholders Here.‘ A Letter from Frederick Douglass

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January 25, 2021  By History of Literature
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Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

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January 15, 2021  By History of Literature
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How Nathaniel Hawthorne Distinguished Between ‘Novels’ and ‘Romances’

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
January 11, 2021  By History of Literature
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Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution?

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
January 4, 2021  By History of Literature
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How Chekhov Cuts to the Heart in Uncle Vanya

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December 28, 2020  By History of Literature
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Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
December 21, 2020  By History of Literature
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To Read or Not to Read Proust’s Swann’s Way

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
December 14, 2020  By History of Literature
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The Triumph of Broadway After 9/11—and How the Show Will Go on Post-Pandemic

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
December 7, 2020  By History of Literature
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On J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creation of the Modern
Fantasy Novel

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
November 30, 2020  By History of Literature
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What Happened to the Classic Western? It Got Better

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
November 23, 2020  By History of Literature
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The Real Golden Age of
Science Fiction

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
November 16, 2020  By History of Literature
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The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
November 9, 2020  By History of Literature
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George Orwell’s 1984 is Always Just Around the Corner

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast
November 2, 2020  By History of Literature
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We Have Edgar Allan Poe to Thank for the Detective Story

Poe Month Continues on The History of Literature Podcast
October 26, 2020  By History of Literature
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