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First As Farce: Structures of Feeling In The Gilded Age (A Tale of Today, Bonus Episode)

Podcast edition of the 2024 Quarry Farm Fall Symposium Keynote by Nathan Wolff, including bibliography.

Organized around a comparison of György Lukács’s “The Historical Novel” (1937) and Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner’s “The Gilded Age” (1873).

A series of conversations about historicisms, hinge points, and historical novels.

Is it presentism all the way down?

A revisionist tale of Robin Hood prefaces a discussion of political economy and emotion in The Gilded Age.

The American Vandal Podcast launches its eleventh series, “A Tale of Today,” marking the 150th year of Mark Twain’s first novel, “The Gilded Age.”