Two alerts for today June 19 and tomorrow June 20:
The first one is a radio alert, Villette will be discussed in The Diane Rehm Show:
Wednesday, June 20
The Diane Rehm Show (WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio. Distributed by NPR, check your local station here)
11:00 AM (ET)
Readers' Review: "Villette" by Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love, narrated by a heroine determined to preserve an independent spirit in the face of adverse circumstances.
Guests
Jonathan Loesberg, literature professor at American University, currently on fellowship at The Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture at Rutgers University
Susan Fraiman, professor of English at the University of Virginia
Amanda Anderson, Caroline Donovan professor of English literature and chair of the department of English at Johns Hopkins University.
The program
will be available on line approximately an hour after the program ends.
The other one comes from Baldwinsville, NY:
Baldwinsville Public Library
33 East Genesee Street
Baldwinsville, NY
Books for Breakfast
Tuesday, June 19 at 9 amThe Books for Breakfast group will be discussing Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Light refreshments will be served and new members are always welcome.
Categories: Alert, Audio-Radio, Villette, Wuthering Heights
Thank you for the alert. I am listening to it on archive. It was funny the host mention they had nobody on line to discuss the novel at the 20 minute mark.
ReplyDeleteAs the scholars said, Villette is more under-read book than an underrated one. Nevertheless, they had several phone calls :P, even Brontë enthusiasts :P.
ReplyDeleteThe discussion addressed much of the usual Villette topics: the very particular characteristics of the narrator, Lucy Snowe, the modern qualities of the narration and of the ending (with the unavoidable mention to The Sopranos!), the detailed hdescription of extreme emotional states, the anticatholicism issue... It was surprising that although it was mentioned, the evident biographical background of Villette was not very much discussed... or that The Professor was not even mentioned.