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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

792 episodesEN

Show overview

The History of Literature has been publishing since 2015, and across the 11 years since has built a catalogue of 792 episodes, alongside 2 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 840 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 1 weeks ago, with 64 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2023, with 107 episodes published. Published by Jacke Wilson.

Episodes
792
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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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

815 Paddy Chayefsky

Jul 6, 20261h 40m

814 Shakespeare in Translation (with Daniel Hahn) | My Last Book with Indira Ghose

Jul 2, 20261h 7m

813 George Sand (with Fiona Sampson) | My Last Book with Kathleen Antonioli

Jun 29, 20261h 4m

812 Talking Classics (with Mary Beard) | My Last Book with Karen Spence

Jun 22, 20261h 2m

811 The Harlem Renaissance [Reclaimed] | My Last Book with Erin Sharkey

Jun 18, 202654 min

810 "The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant (with Mike Palindrome)

Jun 15, 20261h 14m

809 Robert Browning | The Dutch Roots of Washington Irving (with Elisabeth Paling Funk)

Jun 11, 20261h 26m

808 A Treacherous Secret Agent - How Literature Spoke Truth to Power During the Red Scare (with Marjorie Garber) | Arthur Miller on Writing "The Crucible"

Jun 8, 202656 min

807 The Story of Stories (with Kevin Ashton) | My Last Book with Ilya Vinitsky and James H McGavran III

Jun 4, 20261h 12m

806 Robert Frost (with Adam Plunkett) | My Last Book with Ursula Buchan

Jun 1, 202653 min

805 Robert Frost Finds a Friend [Revisited]

May 28, 202654 min
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