George eliot
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The History of Literature #190 – Blood and Sympathy in the 19th Century (with Professor Ann Kibbie)
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL1450661738.mp3 “England may with justice claim to be the native land of transfusion,” wrote one European physician in 1877, acknowledging Great Britain’s role in developing and promoting human-to-human transfusion as treatment for life-threatening blood loss. But what did this scientific practice mean for literature? How did it excite the imagination of authors and readers? And Continue reading
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The History of Literature #184 – George Eliot
http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6223856341.mp3 Perhaps the greatest of all the many great English novelists, George Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans in 1819 in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Her father Robert managed an estate for a wealthy family; her mother Christina was the daughter of a local mill-owner. Among her rather large family, Mary Ann stood apart as the Continue reading
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