The History of Literature

On Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague, and the Existentialists

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

 
By History of Literature  May 22, 2023
The History of Literature

How Byron’s Flamboyant Life Shaped His Poetry

By History of Literature  May 8, 2023
The History of Literature

The Six Films that Helped Spark a Black Film Renaissance

By History of Literature  May 1, 2023
The History of Literature

Black Shakespeare: Ian Smith on Systematic Whiteness and Transforming the Way We Interpret Shakespeare

By History of Literature  April 24, 2023
The History of Literature

Irina Mashinski: Growing up in the Soviet Union to Becoming an American Poet

By History of Literature  April 18, 2023
The History of Literature

Who Was the Man Behind Oscar Wilde’s Downfall?

By History of Literature  April 3, 2023
The History of Literature

The Art of War: How Can a Book Written Two and a Half Millennia Ago Remain Timeless?

By History of Literature  March 27, 2023
The History of Literature

A Deep-Dive on Catullus, the Roman Poet of Fierce Desire and Hatred

By History of Literature  March 20, 2023
The History of Literature

Was Nabokov’s Love of the Cinema a Way to Survive Exile?

By History of Literature  March 13, 2023
The History of Literature

Schopenhauer: Pessimist or Secretly Hopeful?

By History of Literature  March 7, 2023
The History of Literature

Talking to Biographer Carl Rollyson About the Life of William Faulkner

By History of Literature  February 27, 2023
The History of Literature

James Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche

By History of Literature  February 21, 2023
The History of Literature

Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

By History of Literature  February 13, 2023
The History of Literature

Who Really Was Margaret Fuller Before Her Sudden Death?

By History of Literature  February 6, 2023
The History of Literature

10 Essential Questions About Moby-Dick

By History of Literature  January 30, 2023
The History of Literature

Auden and the Muse of History with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb

By History of Literature  January 23, 2023
The History of Literature

Does Edith Wharton Hate Us?

By History of Literature  January 17, 2023
History of Literature

How Was Your Ulysses?

By History of Literature  October 24, 2022
History of Literature

The Cultural Influence of Lady Chatterley’s Lover on Indian Novelist Saikat Majumdar

By History of Literature  October 3, 2022
The History of Literature

The Poets’ Guide to Economics

By History of Literature  September 6, 2022
The History of Literature

Why The Lorax is More Important Than Ever to Teach Our Kids About Ecological Destruction

By History of Literature  August 22, 2022
The History of Literature

Behind the Scenes of Virginia Woolf’s First Self-Published Story

By History of Literature  August 15, 2022
The History of Literature

What True Sentences Did Hemingway Himself Write?

By History of Literature  August 8, 2022
The History of Literature

What Can Edward Gibbon Still Teach Us Today?

By History of Literature  August 1, 2022
The History of Literature

On Matsuo Bashō, Haiku’s Greatest Master

By History of Literature  July 25, 2022
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