from the Jill Schwartz Memorial Library here in the wild of Connecticut.

This is obscure season 2, Frankenstein. I am your host. your

compadry, compadry.

your literary manseplaner in chief,

Michael Ian Black, delighted as always to be with you. I think I have

been saying you're Victorianologist because I was doing that with Jude the obscure but it occurs to me that that is not

the case anymore in fact it's it's it's not the Victorian era

because Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837.

This book is from 1818.

So in fact, this is the Georgian period and I don't know what characterizes the Georgian period in particular, but that's where we are.

So I am your Georgian.

Your Georgian. Oh heavens I'm your Georgian would you like a peach can I have a slice of

a peach cobbler Georgian you can see that I am a master of accents. I've demonstrated that time and time again. But here we are. We are in the Georgian era and gosh, before I even start reading today I feel like I should look up when King George I'm going to open my research machine

When did King George the second die, 1820, so we're at the tail end, oh no, I'm sorry,

King George the third.

Oh, so this is the same George during the revolution. So that's, I don't know, that's

that's queer in a way, right? that we can reach back and we're already

kind of in the revolutionary era and it feels contemporary to me like I feel rooted

to this book already just as I did to Jude the obscure but even more so I think

because the language is so plain or plainer anyway than the Victorian language of Thomas

Hardy. I don't know if that's characteristic of the Georgian

era or what, but it does kind of put us in a historical framework, right? It's

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