In episode three of Sparking Connections, Esmé and Kim discuss Sarah Perry’s 2016 novel The Essex Serpent, male-female friendship, autism, and the importance of names, with a  brief detour into fandom and shipping (I promise it’s relevant…)

Show Notes:

Transcript can be found at: https://pleaseholdfor.squarespace.com/transcript-episode-3-the-essex-serpent

Buckley, Linda H, ‘Toward a New Mythology of Eve: Women, Men and Friendship in Victorian Literature as Seen Through Sarah Perry’s The Essex Serpent’ (Georgetown University, 2018) <https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/1054961/Buckley_georgetown_0076M_14140.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y> [accessed 2 November 2020]

Harrison, M. John, ‘The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Review – a Compulsive Novel of Ideas’, The Guardian, 16 June 2016, section Books <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/16/the-essex-serpent-sarah-perry-review-novel> [accessed 11 February 2020]

Jenkins, Henry, ‘Fan Fiction as Critical Commentary’, Henry Jenkins <http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2006/09/fan_fiction_as_critical_commen.html> [accessed 10 February 2020]

Perry, Sarah, ‘Reading Lessons of a Religious Upbringing without Modern Books’, The Guardian, 2 July 2014, section Books <https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/02/reading-religious-upbringing-without-modern-books-sarah-perry> [accessed 11 February 2020]

———, The Essex Serpent: The Number One Bestseller and British Book Awards Book of the Year, Main edition (Serpent’s Tail, 2016)

Quinn, Annalisa, ‘“The Essex Serpent” Spreads Its Wings’, NPR.Org, 2017 <https://www.npr.org/2017/06/10/530794385/the-essex-serpent-spreads-its-wings> [accessed 11 February 2020]

Saner, Emine, ‘The Essex Serpent Author Sarah Perry: “Kids at School Found Me Strange. I Didn’t Mind”’, The Guardian, 31 July 2016, section Books <https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jul/31/the-essex-serpent-author-sarah-perry-kids-at-school-found-me-strange-i-didnt-mind> [accessed 11 February 2020]

Sontag, Susan, Illness as Metaphor (Vintage Books, 1979)

the tumblr post about autism and changelings: https://hazeldomain.tumblr.com/post/180938754851/oockitty-coldalbion-grace-and-ace

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Kim talks to Esmé about the current Coronavirus outbreak of Covid-19. They talk about how quickly science moves and what a Public Health Emergency of International Concern actually means.

Show Notes:

Transcript can be found at https://pleaseholdfor.squarespace.com/transcript-episode-2-coronavirus

Original News Story - Science Daily: University of Southampton (2020) Potential Global Spread of New Coronavirus Available at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200129091359.htm[Accessed: 24/2/2020]

Video Link: World Health Organisation. (2020) Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). 31/1/2020. Available at: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019[Accessed: 24/2/2020]

Initial Transmission Report: Shengjie Lai, Isaac Bogoch, Nick Ruktanonchai, Alexander Watts, Yu Li, Jianzing Yu, Xin Lv, Weizhong Yang, Hongjie Yu, Kamran Khan, Zhongjie Li, Andrew J Tatem, (2020) ‘Assessing spread risk of Wuhan novel coronavirus within and beyond China, January-April 2020: a travel network-based modelling study’ medRxivDoi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.04.20020479

Latest information on Coronavirus around the world: Situation Reports

Clinical Symptoms and Diagnostics:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nCoV/hcp/clinical-criteria.html

Huang, Chaolin et al. () ‘Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China’ The Lancet. 395(10223). Pp497-506. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30183-5

Define a Public Health Emergency of International Concern : https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/international-health-regulations-and-emergency-committees

Press Briefing: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/t0221-cdc-telebriefing-covid-19.html

Busting Myths about Coronavirus: https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/myth-busters

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In the first ever episode of Sparking Connections, Esmé walks Kim through one of their favourite poems: John Keats' 'Ode to a Nightingale.' They discuss paradoxes, dreams, contemporary criticism, and how Lord Byron was... a lot.

Transcript can be found at https://pleaseholdfor.squarespace.com/episode-1-ode-to-a-nightingale-transcript

Show Notes:

Ode to a Nightingale By John Keats: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44479/ode-to-a-nightingale

References:

Image of letter from Lord Byron can be found at: https://pleaseholdfor.squarespace.com/sparkingconnections/episode-1-ode-to-a-nightingale

Bate, Walter Jackson, and Maura Del Serra, Negative Capability: On the Intuitive Approach in Keats, trans. by Dominic Siracusa, Revised ed. edition (New York: Contra Mundum Press, 2012)

Bennett, Andrew, Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)

Gittings, Robert, ed., Letters of John Keats (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970)

Wu, Duncan, ed., Romanticism: An Anthology, 4th edition (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

Recommended Further Reading:

Morton, Timothy, ‘John Keats: Romantic Consumerism 3’, Romanticism Spring 2009 UC Davis <itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/itunes-university/id399641699> [accessed 30 September 2018]

O’Rourke, James, Keats’s ‘Odes’ and Contemporary Criticism (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1998)

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