An Overview of English Literature

By Fernanda Moura

Short episodes on the fascinating history of English literature by a literary scholar and lecturer, and longer guided reading sessions of classics of literature 📚

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March 21, 2023 Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #3 - chapters 6-9
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)

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1h 26min
March 13, 2023 Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #2 - chapters 2-5
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)
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1h 22min
March 06, 2023 Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #1 - chapter 1
This is the audio-only version of the live YouTube sessions of guided reading of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.
You are welcome to join the live sessions every Thursday at 1:00pm (CET) at the Books & Culture YouTube channel (BOOKS & CULTURE - YouTube)
You can grab your own copy of Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, a cup of tea or coffee, and read along with me. You can pause and continue at any time. In this first session I'll give you an introduction to Jane Austen and her first published novel, and we'll read and discuss the novel's chapter 1.

Check the website: http://booksandculture.club

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56min
February 13, 2023 What is creative reading? 📚
In this episode I’ll talk about creative reading, a meaningful way to connect and interact with the literary text! You can find more information on the website: http://booksandculture.club
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12min
February 01, 2023 Medievalism - Reviving King Arthur
In this episode I invite the literary scholars Eli Elshani and Alicia Rojas Costa to talk about medievalism and how the figure of King Arthur has been depicted in culture.
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23min
December 13, 2022 William Godwin (1756-1836)
In this episode I talk about the English journalist, political philosopher and novelist William Godwin, the author of “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice” and “Caleb Williams”. He was the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley, the future author of “Frankenstein”.
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8min
November 14, 2022 Romanticism
In this episode we travel back to the late 18th and early 19th centuries to explore the “harmonious madness” of the Romantic period in English literature. P.s.: “Lyrical Ballads” was published for the first time in 1798.
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10min
December 03, 2020 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.
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9min
November 06, 2020 The Gothic
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.
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9min
October 29, 2020 Letter Writing and the Epistolary Novel
The 18th century is commonly known as the great age of letter writing. Everyone wrote letters! Listen to this episode and find out how this practice affected the literary production of the time.
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9min

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