Neil Sammells
Professor of English and Irish Literature and Deputy Vice Chancellor at Bath Spa University
2 episodes
Covers topics in categories such as:
CultureAphoristsVictorian novelistsArt movementsIrish male poetsIrish male dramatists and playwrightsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryVictorian poetsAlumni of Trinity College DublinConversationalistsWriters of Gothic fictionIrish expatriates in FranceLGBTQ Roman CatholicsBisexual male writersLibertarian socialistsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersBisexual novelistsIrish male novelists19th-century literatureModern artAlumni of Magdalen College, Oxford19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Bisexual poets19th century in art, Literary movementsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismFin de siècleIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandLGBTQ AnglicansBisexual journalistsPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardons
The Decadent Movement
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence of Baudelaire and Walter Pater on writers and artists in Britain in the 1890s, pursuing art for its own sake and not with moral aims.
18 November 2021
Also featuring: Kate Hext, Alex Murray
Oscar Wilde
Melvyn Bragg discusses Oscar Wilde, the Aesthetes and his literary legacy. Was Wilde a reactionary - the last of the romantics - or was he the midwife to modernism?
6 December 2001
Also featuring: Valentine Cunningham, Regenia Gagnier
ConversationalistsIrish male poetsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismLGBTQ Roman CatholicsWriters of Gothic fictionFin de siècleIrish male dramatists and playwrightsBisexual male writersAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryVictorian novelistsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolAphoristsVictorian poets19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandLibertarian socialistsScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Anglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersIrish expatriates in FranceBisexual poetsBisexual novelistsIrish male novelistsLGBTQ AnglicansBisexual journalistsAlumni of Trinity College DublinPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardons