Appendix: Sentimentality, Revisited
Material Girls
Rehak Hannah
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to our Appendix Season — a chance to look at the Harry Potter series as a whole.
To kick it off, we're revisiting Sentimentality with a deep dive into Beth Driscoll’s book The New Literary Middlebrow! "But middlebrow is not synonymous with sentimentality?!??!" That's right, but by halfway through this episode you'll understand why Hannah had to bring in Driscoll's writing for a broader conversation about the appeal and mainstream success of the Harry Potter series. If you liked our previous episodes on Sentimentality and Eugenics, you'll love this first-ever Appendix Season episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Witch Please, a fortnightly podcast about the Harry Potter world. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Hannah McGregor, and I'm Marcel Cosmon, and I have no idea what I'm doing here. |
| 0:22.0 | I thought we were done reading the Harry Potter books again. |
| 0:26.6 | And that's a really great point, Marcel, and I think we should talk about it in the sorting chat. |
| 0:34.1 | What a good idea. Let's do that. |
| 0:36.4 | So for those of you who maybe missed our very exciting Witch Please, tell me team addition. |
| 0:44.3 | We're doing an eighth season, and this is it. Welcome. You're here. |
| 0:48.0 | It's already happened, Marcel. What's in Appendix? |
| 0:53.0 | And Appendix is an organ that we don't really have a clear sense of what it does, but we think it's part of the immune system. |
| 1:00.4 | But for whatever reason, it tends to get inflamed, and then it needs to be removed. |
| 1:05.8 | Kinda looks like a little finger. It does. It looks like a little hooky finger. |
| 1:09.1 | What else is in Appendix? |
| 1:10.8 | And Appendix is also in a book. It's where you put the stuff that you want to include, but that didn't really fit in the book itself. |
| 1:20.4 | And so in, for example, a research project, like a monograph or a dissertation, you might have an Appendix at the end, where you've got a bunch of really cool research stuff that you found that you think is worthy of inclusion, but that didn't fit with the bigger argument. |
| 1:37.1 | So there go Hannah. What's this? This is the season of episodes that we couldn't quite figure out how to fit into the regular structure of our seasons, which focus on a particular book, but that we still think are cool and wanted to talk about. |
| 1:57.9 | So the episodes this season are going to take a sort of larger top down approach of the Harry Potter series as a whole. |
| 2:06.9 | And because it's big ideas that we think are cool, there's going to be probably a higher percentage of guest episodes. |
| 2:17.1 | We love guest episodes. We love guest episodes and we have an amazing document full of pitches that we have really wanted to sort of start dipping into. |
| 2:29.5 | So we'll be doing that starting with our next episode and bringing in some really exciting people who are going to teach us things. |
| 2:37.5 | God, I love to learn. |
| 2:43.1 | The other thing I think is worth noting is that all the anxious questions we got about what's going to happen after season seven are now just going to be what's going to happen after you're done the Appendix season. |
| 2:55.3 | So don't stop worrying. |
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