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Eight Women Who Rewrote Their Lives | Prof Anne Fernald (opens the original)
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How much freedom do we really have to write the story of our own lives?In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, I speak with Anne E. Fernald about her new book, Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art.With Virginia Woolf and 'A Room of One’s Own' as a guiding presence, Anne tells the stories of eight remarkable twentieth-century women: Margaret Wise Brown, Eileen Chang, Vera Brittain, Muriel Rukeyser, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Una Marson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and Dorothy Arzner.We t
Charles DICKENS and Victorian Psychology (opens the original)
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Was Charles Dickens not only one of the great novelists, but also one of the great psychologists of the Victorian age? In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, Dr John talks to Tyson Stolte, Associate Professor of English at New Mexico State University and author of Dickens and Victorian Psychology: Introspection, First-Person Narration, and the Mind. We explore a side of Dickens that is often overlooked: his fascination with consciousness and the workings of the human mind. How much can we re
The Curious Relationship Between Modernism and Religion | Prof Annarose Steinke (opens the original)
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What happens to religion in poetry when belief itself becomes uncertain? In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, I speak with Professor Annarose Steinke about her book Religious Culture in Modernist Verse: Form, Belief, and Twentieth-Century Poetics. Steinke explores the fascinating and often unexpected ways that twentieth-century poets continued to draw upon Christian imagery, ritual and liturgy, even as traditional religious belief was being questioned and transformed. Our conversation take
When healthcare became a profession | Dr Karen Bloom Gevirtz (opens the original)
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How did medicine become something we buy? And what happened to the women who had provided much of our everyday healthcare for centuries? In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, I speak with Karen Bloom Gevirtz about her fascinating book The Apothecary’s Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity. We tend to think of the history of modern medicine as a straightforward story of progress: science replaced superstition, and trained medical professionals replaced unreliable
How American was Renaissance England? | Dr Lauren Working (opens the original)
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How American was Shakespeare’s England? We tend to imagine the English Renaissance as the world of Shakespeare, Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh and the great voyages of discovery. But what happens when we reverse the direction of travel and ask not simply what England did to the Americas, but what the Americas did to England? In this episode of The Scholar’s Armchair, I talk to historian Dr Lauren Working about her new book A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England. We discuss
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