The Dark Academicals

How is ‘The Great Gatsby’ a Dark Academia book? Well, this is what we discuss in this week’s episode of The Dark Academicals. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s third novel is often coined one of the Great American Novels but there are many elements that have influeced and informed Dark Academia titles that succeed it.

At least, we think so!

In this episode our discussion included:

• How does ‘The Great Gatsby’ stand up against the Dark Academia criteria?

• The portrayal of women and issues of racism within the text

• Character analysis of narrator Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, and Daisy Buchanan

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(Full bibilography and show notes made available through Patreon)

• ‘The Great Gatsby’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• ‘The Secret History’ by Donna Tartt

• ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte

Welcome to The Dark Academicals. The podcast that delves into the mythos of Dark Academia, one book at a time.

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Welcome to The Dark Academicals. The podcast that delves into the mythos of Dark Academia, one book at a time.

Episode information and transcript

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Donna Tartt’s ‘The Secret History’ is synonymous with the term ‘Dark Academia’. It was the beginning. And if you did not realise that before reading the book, you could be forgiven for thinking that the author had just taken the Dark Academia checklist and inserted it all into one narrative. But what makes ‘The Secret History’ a Dark Academia title? We discuss.

Welcome to The Dark Academicals. The podcast that delves into the mythos of Dark Academia, one book at a time.

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Welcome to The Dark Academicals. The podcast that delves deep into the mythos of Dark Academia, one book at a time.