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
840 A History of the Romance Novel (with Dale D...
31 min
2
839 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (with Fiona Samp...
81 min
3
838 The Emerson Circle (with Bruce Nichols) | L...
68 min
4
837 Ghost Month (with Simon Wroe) | Madness and...
72 min
5
836 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (with Robin ...
53 min
6
835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My L...
42 min
7
834 Shakespeare's Scholars (with Sean Keilen) |...
53 min
8
833 Galahad and the Grail (with Malcolm Guite)
52 min
9
832 Stendhal [Revisited]
45 min
10
831 Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (with Rachel...
55 min
11
830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A L...
94 min
12
829 Charlotte Brontë and Her Biographer Elizabe...
67 min
13
828 Confucius (with Mark Csikszentmihalyi) | Ce...
78 min
14
827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Th...
79 min
15
826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on...
75 min
16
825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Mal...
64 min
17
824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The ...
61 min
18
823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Sha...
52 min
19
822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | ...
64 min
20
821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) ...
85 min
21
820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Son...
53 min
22
819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay...
60 min
23
818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last ...
69 min
24
817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Bl...
86 min
25
816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womer...
66 min