Kirsten Hall is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, a graduate fellow at the Austin Institute, and the managing editor of the Genealogies of Modernity Blog. She joins Ryan to discuss eighteenth-century literature, drama, and thought. Their conversation ranges from the historical importance of Cato, the eighteenth century’s Hamilton, to what 2001: A Space Odyssey can tell us about “the deep eighteenth century.” They also discuss the newest film adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma and the similarities between the comic novel and the movie Austenland.

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Genealogical anxiety

The quarrel of the ancients and the moderns

Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books

The eighteenth century’s concern about forgeries

Joseph Addison’s Cato

Eighteenth-century drama

The splendid vices/pagan virtues

2001: A Space Odyssey and the deep eighteenth century

Period costume dramas

Slapstick and the comic novel

Links:

Genealogies of Modernity Blog

The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift

Cato by Joseph Addison

Autumn de Wilde’s Emma

Austenland