The History of Literature

Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Comedy, Tragedy, or Foreshadowing of the Bolshevik Revolution?

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

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

By History of Literature  December 21, 2020
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To Read or Not to Read Proust’s Swann’s Way

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

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

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

By History of Literature  November 23, 2020
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The Real Golden Age of
Science Fiction

By History of Literature  November 16, 2020
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The History of Romance Novels, a Billion-Dollar Industry

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

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

By History of Literature  October 26, 2020
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What Happens When You Open a Phone Line for People to Gush About Their Favorite Books

By History of Literature  October 19, 2020
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On Edgar Allan Poe’s Creepy Doppelgänger Story, “William Wilson”

By History of Literature  October 12, 2020
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On the Haunting Remorse of Edgar Allan Poe’s
“The Black Cat”

By History of Literature  October 5, 2020
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Margot Livesey on the Greatest Writers in Scottish History

By History of Literature  September 28, 2020
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On Enheduanna, the First Poet to Ascribe Her Own Name to Her Works

By History of Literature  September 21, 2020
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The Most Savage Book Reviews of All Time

By History of Literature  September 14, 2020
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Why It’s Worth Reading T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (Even When It’s a Slog)

By History of Literature  September 8, 2020
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The Ecstasy of Reading (and Rereading) Anna Karenina

By History of Literature  August 31, 2020
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What Does Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 Offer Readers Today?

By History of Literature  August 24, 2020
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