This week on The Literary Life podcast, our hosts are pleased to begin talking about Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. For this introduction episode Cindy Rollins and Angelina Stanford are joined by Thomas Banks. Together they discuss the advent of the novel as a form, as well as some predecessors of Austen.
Angelina points out Austen's satirical voice in poking fun at the sentimental novel in the first few chapters. She also encourages us to look for the real life dangers the main characters encounter in contrast to those sensations of the popular sentimental or Gothic novel. Furthermore, we ought to notice who is reading various genres of literature and what that says about those characters.
Cindy and Angelina also talk about Jane Austen's writing and her economy of style and the lasting quality of her books. Along with criticism of sensationalism, Austen also adds a healthy dose of criticism of the education given young women in her day. We also learn that this is a novel of development as we watch Catherine Moorland learn her way around the world.
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The Dying Christian to His Soulby Alexander Pope
Vital spark of heav’nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?
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Episode 245: “Murder Must Advertise” by Dorothy Sayers, Ch. 17-End
Episode 244: "Murder Must Advertise" by Dorothy Sayers, Ch. 12-16
Episode 243: “Murder Must Advertise” by Dorothy Sayers, Ch. 6-11
Episode 242: "Murder Must Advertise" by Dorothy L. Sayers, Intro and Ch. 1-5
Episode 241: Why Read Dante with Jason Baxter
Episode 240: "Best of" Series - The Importance of Detective Fiction, Ep. 3
Episode 239: “Best of” Series – The Literary Life of Jone Rose, Ep. 135
Episode 238: Why Read Biographies
Episode 237: “Best of” Series – “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” Pt. 2, Ep. 106
Episode 236: “Best of” Series – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson, Part 1 (Ep. 105)
Episode 235: “Harry Potter” Book 1, Ch. 13-End
Episode 234: “Harry Potter” Book 1, Ch. 8-12
Episode 233: “Harry Potter” Book 1, Ch. 3-7
Episode 232: “Harry Potter” Book 1, Introduction and Ch. 1-2
Episode 231: What to Do When The Literary Life Feels Overwhelming
Episode 230: “Best of” Series – “Why I Write” by George Orwell, Ep. 16
Episode 229: “Best of” Series, “Araby” by James Joyce, Ep. 11
Episode 228: “Best of” Series, “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, Ep. 15
Episode 227: “Agnes Grey” by Anne Bronte, Ch. 19-25
Episode 226: “Agnes Grey” by Anne Brontë, Ch. 12-18
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