An Overview of English Literature
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Guided Reading of Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor – last session!
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join the free event The Classic Reader Week, starting on September 23! Register here: Free Masterclass The Creative Reader Week (booksandculture.club...
Guided Reading of Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor – Chapters 21, 22 and 23
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to watch the recording of the masterclass Reading in Jane Austen's Time? Click here: Free Jane Austen Masterclass (booksandculture.club...
Guided Reading of Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor – Chapters 19 and 20
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to watch the recording of the masterclass Reading in Jane Austen's Time? Click here: Free Jane Austen Masterclass (booksandculture.club)...
Guided Reading of Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor – Chapters 16, 17 and 18
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Want to watch the recording of the masterclass Reading in Jane Austen's Time? Click here: Free Jane Austen Masterclass (booksandculture.club) Let&...
Guided Reading of Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor – Chapters 13, 14 and 15
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at ...
Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 10, 11 and 12
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at ...
Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 7, 8 and 9
23 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at ...
Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 5 and 6
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at ...
Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Chapters 2, 3 and 4
01 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at ...
Guided reading of Charlotte Brontë's "The Professor" - Preface + Chapter 1
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together the book "The Professor" by Victorian author Charlotte Brontë. We'll meet live on YouTube every Thursday at 13:...
Elizabeth Gaskell’s biography of Charlotte Brontë
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the friendship between Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Gaskell, two important names in Victorian literature. Join the co...
Josephine Tey and the Golden Age of Crime Fiction
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode 51 of the podcast "Josephine Tey and the Golden Age of Crime Fiction". Listen now! Do you want to follow an online course a...
King James II (1633-1701)
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode 50 of the podcast "An Overview of English Literature". We'll talk about King James II. As I always tell my students, his...
Charles Dickens, Victorian Literature and Christmas
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is Episode 49 of the podcast "An Overview of English Literature". Do you want to follow an online course at Books & Culture, incl...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Comet", William du Bois
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join the new group in the course Reading Short Stories, starting on November 6. More info here: Join Reading Short Stories (booksandcultu...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Duchess at Prayer", Edith Wharton - Part 2
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll read together the second part of the story "The Duchess at Prayer", by the American author Edith Wharton, to get i...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Duchess at Prayer", Edith Wharton - Part 1
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll read together the first part of the story "The Duchess at Prayer", by the American author Edith Wharton, to get in...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Cask of Amontillado", Edgar Allan Poe
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll read together the scary story "The Cask of Amontillado", by Edgar Allan Poe, to get in the mood for Halloween! Do...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Apparition", Guy de Maupassant
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll read together the scary story "The Apparition", by Guy de Maupassant, to get in the mood for Halloween! Do you wa...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Shoemaker and the Devil", Anton Chekhov
13 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll read together the spooky story "The Shoemaker and the Devil", by Anton Chekhov, to get in the mood for Halloween! ...
7 Days of Halloween - "The Landlady", Roald Dahl
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll read together the spooky story "The Landlady", by Roald Dahl, to get in the mood for Halloween! Do you want to fo...
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll talk about the author who established the Gothic genre in England, the most highly paid writer of the 1790s, Ann Radcliffe! ...
Why read short stories?
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special episode, because, in addition to being episode number 40 – how nice that we’ve been here for so long, right? Since 2020 – but,...
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll talk about the author of North and South, the friend of Charles Dickens, and the first biographer of Charlotte Brontë: the ...
Who was Eliza de Feuillide, Jane Austen’s cousin?
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we'll talk about a very interesting person connected to the Austen family: the cousin Eliza de Feuillide. Want to know more about...
The Brontë Sisters
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, book lover! In this episode I tell you a bit about three big names in Victorian literature: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë! <3 Do you wan...
An Interview with Megan Neuhoff, a Creative Reader and Writer
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a very special episode in our podcast, because it is the first time we welcome a book lover to speak with us here! Today’s guest is Megan Ne...
"The Mortal Immortal", Mary Shelley
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Let's read together and discuss the short story "The Mortal Immortal" by Mary Shelley. Do you want to know more about Mary Shelley and ...
Mary Shelley, the rebellious daughter and wife
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we talk about the writer Mary Shelley, the author of the fascinating novel Frankenstein. If you want to explore Frankenstein deeper, y...
Jane Austen's first published novel
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I tell you a bit about Jane Austen's first published novel "Sense and Sensibility" and its publication history. Want to...
LAST SESSION - Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #13 - chapters 46-50
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #12 - chapters 42-45
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #11 - chapters 38-41
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #10 - chapters 34-37
09 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #9 - chapters 30-33
04 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #8 - chapters 26-29
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #7 - chapters 22-25
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #6 - chapters 18-21
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #5 - chapters 14-17
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #4 - chapters 10-13
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 liv...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #3 - chapters 6-9
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #2 - chapters 2-5
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Guided reading of Jane Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" #1 - chapter 1
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
What is creative reading? 📚
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Medievalism - Reviving King Arthur
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
William Godwin (1756-1836)
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk about the English journalist, political philosopher and novelist William Godwin, the author of “An Enquiry Concerning Politic...
Romanticism
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 lit...
The French Revolution Controversy in England
03 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The end of the 18th century was a revolutionary era: the Industrial Revolution changed the way people lived and worked; the American Revolution saw th...
The Gothic
06 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Radc...
Letter Writing and the Epistolary Novel
29 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 a...
The Rise of the Novel
16 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The rise of the novel as a new literary genre sprang from two main currents: that of the popular and entertaining novel of amorous intrigue, and the c...
18th-century Satire
15 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The 18th century was a period of wit, in which authors used different strategies to criticise the politics of the time. One of them was satire!
Slavery and the Slave Trade in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk about a dark period in English history, but which had a great impact on the ways of thinking about the human being in the 17th ...
Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
30 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode you will know more about Daniel Defoe, the author of the famous “Robinson Crusoe”, and about his political writings in 18th-centur...
Eliza Haywood (c. 1693-1756)
22 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk about Eliza Haywood, the main female writer of the first half of the 18th century. She was an important name in the literary ge...
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
16 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to this episode about the main name in the second literary phase of the long 18th century, which lasted from 1700 to 1744: the poet and king of...
Aphra Behn: dramatist , poet, fiction writer and spy
04 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode you will know more about Aphra Behn (1640?-1689), the first professional woman writer in England, who worked as a spy during Charles I...
King Charles II (1660-1685)
26 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660, Charles II reigned for almost 25 years. Listen to this episode and know what the main events of his rei...
John Dryden (1631-1700)
20 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
John Dryden (1631-1700) was the main literary figure in the last decades of the 17th century in England. Listen to this episode and know more about hi...
English Literature 1660-1785
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The period between 1660 and 1785 in English literary history can be divided in three phases: the first from 1660 until 1700; the second from 1701 unti...
Literary Production and Circulation in the Restoration
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode I talk about how books were printed and circulated in England after the Restoration up to the beginning of the 18th century.
An introduction to the Restoration
04 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The year is 1660 and Charles II has been summoned to restore the English monarchy. Listen to this episode to have a better understanding of the contex...
An Overview of English Literature (Trailer)
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas