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What did Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Bronson Alcott, Margaret Fuller, the Peabody sisters, and Nathaniel Hawthorne have in common? In addition to being literary luminaries who've been famous for nearly two hundred years, they all lived in Concord, Massachusetts, a little town roughly 20 miles northwest of Boston. How did a town of just over two thousand people come to host so many celebrated American writers? And how did their ideas end up changing the world? In this episode, Jacke talks to author Bruce Nichols about his new book The Emerson Circle: The Concord Radicals...
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The History of Literature podcast is a member of the Podglamorate network and LitHub Radio. Is Wuthering Heights really a love story? Should you be afraid of Virginia Woolf? And most importantly, is Mr. Darcy handsome enough to tempt you?
This is The Secret Life of Books. I'm Sophie G, academic and writer. And I'm Jonty Claypole, broadcaster and producer. In this podcast we tell the story behind the story of the literary classics everybody wants
to read, feels they should read, or has already read and loved. We reveal the secret histories, hidden players and big ideas behind the great books. We show how they came into being, why they matter and how they changed the world. The deeper we go the weirder the questions.
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