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The History of Literature

The History of Literature

A podcast about great books and the people who wrote them

Jacke Wilson / The Podglomerate · Jacke Wilson

803 episodesEN

Show overview

The History of Literature has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 803 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 850 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.

Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 55 min and 1h 10m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. It is catalogued as a EN-language Arts show.

The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed earlier today, with 75 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 107 episodes published. Published by Jacke Wilson.

Episodes
803
Running
2015–2026 · 11y
Median length
1h 2m
Cadence
Weekly

From the publisher

Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at [email protected].

Latest Episodes

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835 Blackness in Iran (with Amy Motlagh) | My Last Book with Nicholas Boggs

Oct 8, 202646 min

834 Shakespeare's Scholars (with Sean Keilen) | My Last Book with Nan Z. Da

Oct 5, 202655 min

833 Galahad and the Grail (with Malcolm Guite)

Sep 28, 202654 min

832 Stendhal [Revisited]

Sep 24, 202647 min

831 Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" (with Rachel Pastan) | My Last Book with David Denby

Sep 21, 202658 min

830 Becoming Stendhal (with Hadley Suter) | A Literary Tribute to Dolly Parton

Sep 14, 20261h 39m

829 Charlotte Brontë and Her Biographer Elizabeth Gaskell (with Susan Dunne) | My Last Book with Travis Franks | The Odyssey Kerfuffle

Sep 10, 20261h 11m

828 Confucius (with Mark Csizkszentmihalyi) | Celia Bookshop! (with Rachel Pastan) | Jacke in Taiwan

Sep 7, 20261h 21m

827 American Literature's War on Crime (with Theodore Martin) | W.E.B. DuBois Sits with Shakespeare

Aug 31, 20261h 23m

826 The Essayist's Essayist - Phillip Lopate on the Pleasures of Reading Washington Irving and Other "Minor Writers" | Notes from the History of Literature Podcast Tour!

Aug 27, 20261h 19m

825 Henry James's Ghosts (with Morgan Lloyd Malcolm) | My Last Book with David Womersley

Aug 24, 20261h 8m

824 Why Did Mary Shelley Try to Erase Her? The Claire Clairmont Story (with Emily Franklin) | My Last Book with Mathelinda Nabugodi

Aug 17, 20261h 5m

823 Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth, and Shakespeare in a Divided America (with James Shapiro)

Aug 13, 202654 min

822 Wild Thoreau (with Lydia Willsky-Ciollo) | My Last Book with Douglas Clark

Aug 10, 20261h 8m

821 A History of the Kiss (with Katie Barclay) | Wonderland Books! (with Amy Joyce and Gayle Weiswasser)

Aug 3, 20261h 28m

820 Irish Radical Poet Eva Gore-Booth (with Sonja Tiernan)

Jul 30, 202655 min

819 Robert Louis Stevenson (with Glenda Norquay) | The Rise of HOT Literati | My Last Book with Olivia Wolfgang-Smith

Jul 27, 20261h 4m

818 Muriel Spark (with James Bailey) | My Last Book with J. Michael Lennon

Jul 20, 20261h 13m

817 The Odyssey - Getting Ready for a Summer Blockbuster | My Last Book with Mary Beard

Jul 16, 20261h 30m

816 Gulliver's Travels at 300 (with David Womersley) | My Last Book with Daniel Mendelsohn

Jul 13, 20261h 10m
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