Hi patrons! This week, Alex, Grace and I go through Henry James' 1879 biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne (how James' biography is more about James). Sensitive and insecure America and listen to an unabridged reading of Hawthorne's 1835 short story, 'Wakefield' about a man who leaves his wife without explanation only to live nearby and watch her for decades.

Sources:

McCall, Dan. "Henry James's Hawthorne." New England Review (1990-) 18, no. 4 (1997): 111-18.

Matthew Peters; "Henry James's Hawthorne," The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume 42, Issue 4, 1 December 2013, Pages 305–317

"Hawthorne" by Henry James, narrated by Flo Gibson

'Wakefield' in Twice-Told Tales by Hawthorne on Librivox. https://librivox.org/twice-told-tales-by-nathaniel-hawthorne/

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On todays show, Alex and I discuss "The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall," a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in the June 1835 issue of the monthly magazine Southern Literary Messenger. A satire on the rising popularity of the sensationalist penny press magazines like The Sun, this story is as much a media critique as it is an early example of science fiction.

References:

The Folklorist, "The Great Moon Hoax.” YouTube, YouTube, 17 Oct. 2013, youtube.com/watch?v=azlz163nN-A.

Full story narration available via Librivox.org:

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 1

https://librivox.org/the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe-raven-edition-volume-1/

"The Historical Novel" by Georg Lukacs (originally 1937)

Full PDF: https://thecharnelhouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Georg-Luka%CC%81cs-The-Historical-Novel.pdf

How Great Science Fiction Works by Professor Gary K. Wolfe, Ph.D. in The Great Courses series.

Dinius, M. J. (2004), Poe's Moon Shot: “Hans Phaall” and the Art and Science of Antebellum Print Culture. Poe Studies/Dark Romanticism, 37: 1-10

Martinez, Carlo. "E. A. Poe's "Hans Pfaall," the Penny Press, and the Autonomy of the Literary Field." The Edgar Allan Poe Review 12, no. 1 (2011): 6-31.

"Balloon Boy" Falcon Henne Admits: "We Did This For The Show"

https://youtu.be/wI6UONWCq7A

Inside: Whigs as Zombie Federalists. The Eminem of the "Jump Jim Crow" dance. Inheritence as control by the dead. 19th century amusements: soap bubbles still hot. Trains will make homes obsolete and the telegraph was the internet.

feat. @Alecks_Guns and @MattLech

Sources:

Cook, Jonathan A. "“The Most Satisfactory Villain That Ever Was”: Charles W. Upham and The House of the Seven Gables." The New England Quarterly 88, no. 2 (2015): 252-285.

David Grant. "The Death of Anti-Whiggery in The House of the Seven Gables." ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture 63, no. 1 (2017): 79-117. https://muse.jhu.edu/

Ashby, LeRoy. With Amusement for All: A History of American Popular Culture since 1830. University Press of Kentucky, 2006. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcqsr.

Utopian Socialists by Youtuber 'robert King'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRrHBScLhQA

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Alex and Matt talk Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue" and "A Dialogue Between Old England and New," originally published in 1650 in The Tenth Muse, lately Sprung up in America, a collection often said to have been published without Anne's full awareness and which saw her become the first poet, male or female, from the "New World." We also discuss the context of patriarchal repression illustrated by the Anne Hutchinson trials and the place of women in colonial New England.

@LitHangover

@mattlech

@Alecks_Guns

References:

'Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet' by Charlotte Gordon (2005)

'The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic' by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker (2000) Full book here:

(https://libcom.org/library/many-headed-hydra-peter-linebaugh-marcus-rediker/)

Elizabeth Klett's recording of "The Tenth Muse" at Archive.org

(https://archive.org/details/tenthmuse_elizabethklett)

Chris and I discuss Nancy MacLean's controversial 2017 book 'Democracy in Chains' and the right-wing attack on Democracy. Is James Buchanan the Machiavelli of Libertarianism or its Forrest Gump? Thanks for listening! Please leave a review on iTunes or wherever is easiest and consider supporting the show with patreon.com/literaryhangover

Matt (@MattLech)

Chris (@ristotelian)

@LitHangover

References:

MacLean's defense:

'The Controversy over Democracy in Chains' by Andy Seal

https://s-usih.org/2017/07/the-controversy-over-democracy-in-chains/

'School Vouchers, James Buchanan, and Segregation' by John Jackson

https://altrightorigins.com/2017/08/06/school-vouchers-segregation/

'Ideas Have Consequences: The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice' by Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen, Suresh Naidu

http://elliottash.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/ash-chen-naidu-2018-07-15.pdf

MacLean's critics:

"The Sound of Silence. A Review Essay of Nancy Maclean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America," by Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3175135

"On the Origins and Goals of Public Choice Constitutional Conspiracy?" By Michael C. Munger

http://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=9115

Other references

"Why Does Freedom Wax and Wane? Some Research Questions in Social Change and Big Government" by Tyler Cowen

https://www.mercatus.org/system/files/cowen_freedom_wax_and_wane_v3.pdf

"Tax-funded charter schools textbooks deny evolution, teach human-dinosaur cohabitation, endorse slavery and indigenous genocide" via Boing Boing

https://boingboing.net/2018/06/02/idiocracy-prequel.html

"Exclusive: Lee Atwater’s Infamous 1981 Interview on the Southern Strategy" via The Nation

https://www.thenation.com/article/exclusive-lee-atwaters-infamous-1981-interview-southern-strategy/

Back again with more coverage of Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, we follow the story through the end of Volume 1. Including discussion of storytelling's place in liberal progress, the hands-on patriarchy of the colonial period, and more.

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@mattlech

@Alecks_Guns

@gracejackson

References:

Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644.

CREMER, ANDREA ROBERTSON. "Possession: Indian Bodies, Cultural Control, and Colonialism in the Pequot War." Early American Studies6, no. 2 (2008): 295-345. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546576.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. "Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." NWSA Journal8, no. 3 (1996): 63-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316461.

Weierman, Karen Woods. "Reading and Writing "Hope Leslie": Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Indian "Connections"." The New England Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2002): 415-43. doi:10.2307/1559786.

Hi all, here is the third installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. This is the end of Volume 1.

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Hi all, in preparations for the this week's episode, Part 2 on Hope Leslie, here is the second installment of my narration originally released for for members.

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Hi everyone! At long last, the first episode on Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 'Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. This week, Alex and I are joined by Grace to break down the whodunit? of Sedgwick's erasure from the American literary canon, the incredible amount of still-relevant social isssues she includes in her novel, as well as a look at some of the limitations of 19th century humanitarian liberalism. Thanks for the support.

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@mattlech

@Alecks_Guns

References:

Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644.

CREMER, ANDREA ROBERTSON. "Possession: Indian Bodies, Cultural Control, and Colonialism in the Pequot War." Early American Studies6, no. 2 (2008): 295-345. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546576.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. "Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." NWSA Journal8, no. 3 (1996): 63-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316461.

Hi everyone! In preparation for the first Hope Leslie episode on Saturday, I'm unlocking (previously available at Patreon.com/literaryhangover) the first installment of my narration of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts for members. These are the chapters that Grace, Alex, and I talk about.

Once I'm finished, I'll upload it to Librivox where my (admittedly amateurish) narration will be immortalized in the public domain for as long as the internet exists. Not only is there not a good audiobook narration for Hope Leslie, there really isn't a very good free full text copy. The one linked above is only useful in PDF format. There's a good Penguin Classics edition of the book however. Some of the language is antiquated, so you may want a copy to read along with. https://archive.org/details/hopeleslieorearl01sedg