Laura Rattray
Reader in North American Literature at the University of Glasgow
1 episode
Covers topics in categories such as:
Culture19th-century American poetsMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersGerman–English translatorsKnights of the Legion of Honour19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)American autobiographers20th-century American women writersGilded Age19th-century American women writers, American women poets19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writers
Edith Wharton
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Wharton's novels, which explore the world of the privileged in America's Gilded Age, in which she lived, written in hindsight and with little mercy.
4 October 2018
Also featuring: Hermione Lee, Bridget Bennett
Culture19th-century American poets20th-century American women writersGerman–English translatorsGilded Age19th-century American women writers, American women poetsKnights of the Legion of Honour19th-century American novelists, Novelists from New York (state)19th-century American short story writers, Ghost story writersMembers of the American Academy of Arts and LettersAmerican autobiographers19th century20th centuryAmerica