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 dramatists and playwrightsVictorian poetsAlumni of Trinity College DublinBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryIrish male poetsConversationalistsIrish expatriates in FranceWriters of Gothic fictionBisexual novelistsIrish male novelistsBisexual male writersLibertarian socialistsLGBTQ Roman CatholicsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersModern art19th-century literatureBisexual poetsScholars of Trinity College DublinAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordWriters from Dublin (city)19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrights19th century in art, Literary movementsIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolBisexual journalistsInfectious disease deaths in FranceFin de siècleConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismLGBTQ AnglicansPeople 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
Bisexual poetsIrish Freemasons, Irish libertarians, Irish people of English descentConversationalistsIrish male dramatists and playwrightsBisexual novelistsFreemasons of the United Grand Lodge of EnglandVictorian poetsIrish writers in French, People educated at Portora Royal SchoolAlumni of Trinity College DublinBisexual journalistsInfectious disease deaths in FranceIrish male novelistsFin de siècleVictorian novelistsConverts to Roman Catholicism from AnglicanismScholars of Trinity College DublinLGBTQ AnglicansIrish expatriates in FranceBurials at Père Lachaise CemeteryAlumni of Magdalen College, OxfordWriters from Dublin (city)People convicted for homosexuality in the United Kingdom, People who have received posthumous pardonsBisexual male writers19th-century Irish dramatists and playwrights, 19th-century Irish poets, Symbolist dramatists and playwrightsLibertarian socialistsLGBTQ Roman CatholicsAnglo-Irish artists, Irish fantasy writersAphoristsWriters of Gothic fictionIrish male poets19th centuryIrelandMedicine