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Hardcore Literature Lecture Series
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📔Contents Page: https://cutt.ly/CmNhRY3
🎖️ War and Peace: https://cutt.ly/U3nzGma
🎭 Shakespeare Project: https://cutt.ly/B3nxHH7
🐳 Moby Dick: https://cutt.ly/K3nzVKf
☄️ Blood Meridian: https://cutt.ly/P3nz6Qp
🍂 Wuthering Heights: https://cutt.ly/N3nxxYt
🇮🇪 Ulysses: https://cutt.ly/x3nxQmN
🚂 Anna Karenina: https://cutt.ly/vmNhAWv
💀 Crime and Punishment: https://cutt.ly/rmNhFt5
⚓ Persuasion: https://cutt.ly/amNhX7b
☕ In Search of Lost Time: https://cutt.ly/5mNh8oD
⚔️ The Hero’s Journey: https://cutt.ly/UmNjrE3
🌸 Siddharta: https://cutt.ly/YmNjuzi
🎠 Don Quixote: https://cutt.ly/cmNjoK4
❤️Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://cutt.ly/nmNlW7V
🇫🇷 Les Misérables: https://cutt.ly/J3YixoA
🕯️ The Turn of the Screw: https://cutt.ly/nToAQQ3
🖋️ Dickens Seasonal Read: https://cutt.ly/9ToAybt
📖 Middlemarch Serial Reading: https://tinyurl.com/45rv965c
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Timestamps:
0:00 appreciating the novels of Jane Austen
1:00 how to read Pride and Prejudice
2:00 the story of Pride and Prejudice
3:00 a single man of large fortune
3:30 meeting the Bennet family
4:00 Mr Bingley and Mr Darcy
4:30 meeting Elizabeth Bennett
5:00 my appreciation for Mrs Bennet
5:20 Bennett estate entailed to Mr Collins
6:20 why the stakes are high in this story
7:20 the Georgian and Regency era
8:00 social pyramid of Jane Austen’s day
8:30 why readers dislike Lady Catherine
9:20 understanding the Georgian gentry
10:00 what was Jane Austen’s social class?
11:15 social tension in Georgian England
12:20 awareness of social rank in Austen
13:00 understanding the character Mr Collins
13:30 on the idea of knowing your place
14:00 why is Mr Darcy so rude?
14:50 Jane Austen’s heroines marry for love
15:30 the humour of the marriage market
16:00 why we love Elizabeth Bennet
17:00 a lady walking through miles of mud
17:30 the psychology of regency courtship
18:30 on the idea of marrying for love
19:00 what it meant to refuse a proposal
20:30 what happened to unmarried women?
22:00 how to attract a decent regency man
22:40 what makes an accomplished woman?
23:00 what makes a good woman to Darcy?
24:00 how to meet your regency love
24:30 the etiquette of the Georgian ballroom
25:40 the conduct of courting couples
26:00 the good and bad of regency dances
26:30 how a gentleman behaves at the ball
27:30 what did ‘coming out’ mean?
28:50 on the youngest Bennett Lydia
29:30 when was Pride and Prejudice written?
30:30 when was Pride and Prejudice published?
30:40 the tragedy of Jane Austen’s early death
31:30 how each Austen novels is unique
32:00 the voice of a young Jane Austen
32:20 on the love life of Jane Austen
32:50 Jane Austen’s letters to sister Cassandra
33:10 Tom Lefroy, the one who got away
34:00 Austen’s novels were her children
34:30 Jane Austen and the rise of the novel
35:00 what was the reputation of the novel?
35:40 defence of the novel in Northanger Abbey
36:40 not ashamed of being a novel reader
38:20 the rise of the subscription library
39:50 the history of women writers and readers
40:30 Shakespeare’s influence on Jane Austen
40:50 what writers did Jane Austen read?
41:30 Fanny Burney’s influence on Jane Austen
42:00 epistolary novels in the great age of letters
43:00 communal reading and reading aloud
43:50 on the juvenilia of Jane Austen
44:10 Austen’s revolutionary social realism
44:40 Austen’s psychologically complex characters
45:00 seeing our family in the Bennet family
45:30 Sir Walter Scott’s review of Emma
46:00 realism vs exciting melodrama
46:20 first person vs omniscient narration
47:30 when authors behave like characters
48:00 what Tolstoy learnt from Jane Austen
48:30 Austen pioneers free indirect discourse
49:30 appreciating Jane Austen’s ingenuity
50:30 nineteen different centres of consciousness
51:20 ‘it is a truth universally acknowledged…’
52:20 recommended adaptation of Pride and Prejudice
53:00 relishing the irony and subtext of Jane Austen
54:20 reading exercise for Jane Austen appreciation
55:00 male vs female point of view in Austen
55:40 how the characters are the story
56:30 how do we define what a character is?
57:40 the complexity of Austen’s protagonists
59:00 seeing a reflection of ourselves in literature
1:00:30 appreciating otherness in Austen’s novels
1:01:00 Austen and Molière lectures pacing
1:02:00 Pride and Prejudice with the book club
1:04:00 back catalogue and upcoming read-throughs
1:05:00 what is your experience with Jane Austen?