AmLit Readers: American Literature, Culture, and History Podcast

Ep. 3 of 6 on Emily Dickinson’s poetry. Learn about the Dickinson Editin Collective and the evolution of how Dickinson's poems have appeared in print.  See Johnson's first scholarly editions here.  Also Johnson edited a volume called The Master Letters.  See also Choosing, Not Choosing (Cameron) and Radical Scatters (Werner)  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 2 of 6 on Emily Dickinson’s poetry. What are the challenges and opportunites of reading a posthumous poet.  See the short biography of Dickinson in 7th edition of Norton Anthology of American Literature. Poems mentioned appear in the 2004 volume of poems edited by R. W. Franklin. Based on 2004 volume of poems edited by R. W. Franklin.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 1 of 6 on Emily Dickinson’s poetry.See the short biography of Dickinson in 7th edition of Norton Anthology of American Literature.  It is precise and accurate as it details how the "myth of Amherst" has clouded how readers approach Dickinson's more than 1700 poems.  Poems refers to the 2004 volume of poems edited by R. W. Franklin.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 4 of 4 on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. Interpret the competing endings of Billy Budd – the execution, Vere’s death, the newspaper report, and the final poem.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 3 of 4 on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor. What rights do those in the military give up? Within the hierarchical order of the Bellipotent what are the “Rights of Man”? How does a queer theoretical lens help explain the plot? See Barbara Johnson's and Eve Kosofky Sedgwick's critical take.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 2 of 4 on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor.  Evaluate how critical conversation on Billy Budd maps onto the structure of the plot with the shifting emphasis fom Billy to Claggart, and then Vere. Did Vere have to hold the drumhead court? See Introduction of Heyford and Sealts edition, see also Toni Morrison on book’s opening digression

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Ep. 1 of 4 on Herman Melville's Billy Budd, Sailor.  Consider Billy Budd in the context of Melville’s career and the influence of Hawthorne, Shakespeare, and John Milton on his writing. See Hershel Parker's 2-volume biography. See the truncated biography of Melville in 7th edition of Norton Anthology of American Literature 

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Ep. 7 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Interpret Jacobs's mixed feelings about the "bill of sale" that sets her free.  How does her ending trouble traditional narratives that conclude with marriage?  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 6 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. What challenges does Jacobs's encounter as an author attempting to appease her audience of white, Northern, middle-class women while addressing the truth about sexual exploitation within slavery?  See also more on this topic here.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley

Ep. 5 of 7 on Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Learn more about the circuitous publishing history of Jacob’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Place Jacobs’s text within the history of different literary forms: sentimental literature, seduction narratives, and first-person accounts of slavery and emancipation. See biography of Jacobs here.  Join us on Goodreads goo.gl/T7Waw1. Contact @profomalley