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An Overview of English Literature

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Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 7, 8 and 9

Published 03/23/24

Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 5 and 6

Published 03/12/24

Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 2, 3 and 4

Published 03/01/24

Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Preface + Chapter 1

Published 02/15/24

Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë

Published 02/06/24

Charles Dickens, Victorian Literature and Christmas

Published 11/22/23

7 Days of Halloween - "The Comet", William du Bois

Published 11/02/23

7 Days of Halloween - "The Apparition", Guy de Maupassant

Published 10/18/23

7 Days of Halloween - "The Landlady", Roald Dahl

Published 10/10/23

Chapter 41 - Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)

Published 09/19/23

Why read short stories?

Published 07/24/23

Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)

Published 07/18/23

The Brontë Sisters

Published 07/04/23

Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #5 - chapters 14-17

Published 04/04/23

Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #4 - chapters 10-13

Published 03/28/23

Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #3 - chapters 6-9

Published 03/21/23

Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #2 - chapters 2-5

Published 03/13/23

Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #1 - chapter 1

Published 03/06/23

What is creative reading? 📚

Published 02/13/23

Medievalism - Reviving King Arthur

Published 02/01/23

William Godwin (1756-1836)

Published 12/13/22

Published 11/14/22

The French Revolution Controversy in England

The end of the 18th century was a revolutionary era: the Industrial Revolution changed the way people lived and worked; the American Revolution saw the rise of the United States of America as an independent country; and the French Revolution brought France’s despotic monarchy to an end. In this episode, learn how some influential English writers responded to the French Revolution in England.

Published 12/03/20

An Overview of English Literature

Published 12/03/20

Gothic literature started in England in 1764 with Horace Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto”. It then boomed in the 1790s with the author Ann Radcliffe. Listen to this episode and know more about how this genre came to be, and how it expanded into the 20th and 21st centuries.

Published 11/06/20