Kate Chopin

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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From within the quarantine, Jacke travels to 1893 and the Louisiana bayou, where he finds Kate Chopin, pioneering feminist and author of the classic novel The Awakening, writing her short story "Desiree's Baby," in which a woman in love struggles against the racial prejudice of the antebellum South. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. Music Credits: “DarxieLand" and "Piano Between" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ *** 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.
0:12.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, here we go. Hello, everyone. How are you?
0:23.0	safe and sound.
0:29.0	Okay, here we go.
0:31.0	Hello everyone. How are you? Safe and sound. I hope the news out there is bleak
0:37.8	all over the world. We are trapped inside our homes, waiting for the hammer to fall.
0:43.4	What we hear from the outside world is not good.
0:46.6	Hospitals are starting to become overwhelmed here where I live in the United States,
0:51.9	in New York City, particular and even worse in some other
0:56.1	countries like my beloved Italy where they are ahead of us on this awful curve and the fear and trembling is stretching into all walks of life.
1:08.9	This is not the place for coronavirus news.
1:10.9	My purpose here isn't to extend the reach of the news, but to provide a temporary
1:16.5	safe haven from it. I'm doing what I can. For us to endure these nightmarish conditions, we have to have some respite too. We have to sleep, we have to exercise, we have to stay mentally healthy.
1:30.0	When under attack we need friends as well as enemies we need strong hearts and strong minds and so we turn to literature and to discussions of literature to help us make it through.
1:43.0	I'm trying to increase the content here,
1:45.0	sending out some extra shows.
1:47.0	We have a big back catalog, a couple hundred episodes out there
1:51.0	all for free, but some of you have already listened to all of those
1:54.3	and I know a lot of you could use some extra content. We're spending a lot of hours on your own, sometimes
2:00.6	alone. Sometimes alone except for small children.
2:05.0	You could use a friendly grown-up voice in your ears.
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