The History of Literature

Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at historyofliteraturepodcast@gmail.com.

Books
History
1
842 Medea (with Edith Hall)
60 min
2
841 Caribbean Romanticism (with Kir Kuiken) | M...
60 min
3
840 A History of the Romance Novel (with Dale D...
31 min
4
839 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (with Fiona Samp...
81 min
5
838 The Emerson Circle (with Bruce Nichols) | L...
68 min
6
837 Ghost Month (with Simon Wroe) | Madness and...
72 min
7
836 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (with Robin ...
53 min
8
835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My L...
42 min
9
834 Shakespeare's Scholars (with Sean Keilen) |...
53 min
10
833 Galahad and the Grail (with Malcolm Guite)
52 min
11
832 Stendhal [Revisited]
45 min
12
831 Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (with Rachel...
55 min
13
830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A L...
94 min
14
829 Charlotte Brontë and Her Biographer Elizabe...
67 min
15
828 Confucius (with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) | Ce...
78 min
16
827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Th...
79 min
17
826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on...
75 min
18
825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Mal...
64 min
19
824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The ...
61 min
20
823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Sha...
52 min
21
822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | ...
64 min
22
821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) ...
85 min
23
820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Son...
53 min
24
819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay...
60 min
25
818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last ...
69 min