126 Animals in Literature (Part One)

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

Arts, History, Books

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Inspired by a listener’s heartfelt request, we take a look at an often overlooked subject: animals in literature. In this episode, a precursor to a forthcoming Draft with President Mike (i.e., “The 10 Best Animals in Literature”), Jacke considers the earliest mentions of animals in literature and how the literary appearances of animals have changed over time, before concluding with a modest offering of his own. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. Learn more about the show at historyofliterature.com. Contact the host at jackewilsonauthor@gmail.com. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, hello, let's get started. I'm very excited about today's show
0:34.6	excited because it's a bit of an unknown for me I don't know exactly where we're going to go you know
0:41.1	so many times when we've done these what have we done about 125
0:46.8	something of these and many of them have guests and that's always fun there's always
0:51.0	a surprise in there I don't know what the guests are going to say. We have
0:56.6	some more of those in the works of course including with our old friend Mike
0:59.6	the president who's going to be coming on to talk about this very topic that we're discussing today.
1:05.0	Animals in Literature.
1:08.0	But there are a lot of shows where it's just me and the microphone and frankly I tend to go through topics that are not new to me.
1:14.0	There are things I've been thinking about for years, sometimes decades.
1:18.0	Or it's a book I've read a long time ago and now I've re-read it,
1:22.0	but I kind of know what I think before I even get started
1:26.3	talking about it. This one is different. This is a subject that's been right there all this
1:32.3	time incognito, at least to me, animals in literature.
1:38.0	Animals in literature. I've never really thought about this before.
1:41.0	But there we go, it's there. It's a fascinating idea. How have
1:45.7	animals been used in literature? How do they appear? What do they do? What does it matter to us?
1:54.0	Remember why this show interests me? It's about literature, of course, but in some ways, I don't give a damn about literature, or history, for that matter. That's the dirty little secret of this show.
2:06.0	It's called the history of literature. Don't give a damn about history. Don't give a damn about literature.
2:11.4	So what's left of?
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