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 movementsVictorian poetsWriters of Gothic fictionAlumni of Trinity College DublinConversationalistsIrish male poetsIrish male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in FranceBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryLGBTQ Roman CatholicsLibertarian socialistsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writers19th-century literatureModern artBisexual novelistsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Irish male novelistsBisexual male writers19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets19th century in art, Literary movementsBisexual journalistsLGBTQ AnglicansConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandFin de siècleBisexual poetsInfectious disease deaths in FrancePeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsPeople educated at Portora Royal School, Irish writers in FrenchIrish Freemasons, Irish people of English descent, Irish libertarians
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
CultureAphoristsVictorian novelistsVictorian poetsWriters of Gothic fictionAlumni of Trinity College DublinConversationalistsIrish male poetsBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryLGBTQ Roman CatholicsLibertarian socialistsBisexual novelistsAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordScholars of Trinity College DublinWriters from Dublin (city)Irish male novelistsBisexual male writersBisexual journalistsLGBTQ AnglicansConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandFin de siècleBisexual poetsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish male dramatists and playwrights, Irish expatriates in FranceAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writers19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poetsPeople convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsPeople educated at Portora Royal School, Irish writers in FrenchIrish Freemasons, Irish people of English descent, Irish libertarians