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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🚂 Anna Karenina: cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
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Happy reading!


0:00 Jane Austen's Persuasion publication history
0:30 "graduating" to Persuasion
1:00 Anne Elliot was "almost too good" for Austen
1:40 why Persuasion is a sad novel
2:20 Jane Austen's themes and preoccupations
3:00 the rise of the novel (Richardson and Fielding)
4:00 the rise of women's literature
4:20 my history with Jane Austen
6:45 Austen being Shakespearean
7:40 Jane Austen is a Pisces (like me)
9:00 the Book Club schedule
9:20 the Proust Project
10:30 publishing in the 18th and 19th centuries
11:00 the structure of the lectures
11:30 recommended editions of Persuasion
12:20 reading assignments
13:00 how to join the Book Club