Beatrice Institute Podcast Enlightenment and Literature with Kirsten Hall
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.
Calling cards for social media
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
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