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Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen's use of the words 'interest' and 'interesting' and the significance of women reading in her novels, in this extract from 'On Satire', a Close Readings series from the London Review of Books.
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Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.
Other episodes in the 'On Satire' series:
What is satire? youtu.be/yU6UzWPmtBI
John Donne's Satires: youtu.be/_V18OHYYdIs
Ben Jonson's 'Volpone': youtu.be/CfrmklQxwRc
The Earl of Rochester: youtu.be/dTEXl7RXBJ8
John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': youtu.be/Tm18jONY81g
'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope: youtu.be/rss8psrWXK0
'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne: youtu.be/KwxiXxP29ZE
ABOUT CLOSE READINGS
Close Readings is a multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books exploring different periods of literature through a selection of key works. Enjoy an introductory grounding like no other from Europe's leading literary journal: fluent, rigorous, irreverent and never boring.
Find more episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT6dL0t3N1uwntdebUCvXl_JD7K9J8B0K
ABOUT THE LRB
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.
Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell look at Jane Austen's use of the words 'interest' and 'interesting' and the significance of women reading in her novels, in this extract from 'On Satire', a Close Readings series from the London Review of Books.
This is an extract from the episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, subscribe:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: lrb.me/applecryt
In other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadingsyt
Colin Burrow and Clare Bucknell are both fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.
Other episodes in the 'On Satire' series:
What is satire? youtu.be/yU6UzWPmtBI
John Donne's Satires: youtu.be/_V18OHYYdIs
Ben Jonson's 'Volpone': youtu.be/CfrmklQxwRc
The Earl of Rochester: youtu.be/dTEXl7RXBJ8
John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera': youtu.be/Tm18jONY81g
'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope: youtu.be/rss8psrWXK0
'The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman' by Laurence Sterne: youtu.be/KwxiXxP29ZE
ABOUT CLOSE READINGS
Close Readings is a multi-series podcast subscription from the London Review of Books exploring different periods of literature through a selection of key works. Enjoy an introductory grounding like no other from Europe's leading literary journal: fluent, rigorous, irreverent and never boring.
Find more episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT6dL0t3N1uwntdebUCvXl_JD7K9J8B0K
ABOUT THE LRB
The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance.
As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.
