Kirsten Hall is a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, a graduate fellow at the Austin Institute, and the managing editor of the Genealogies of Modernity Blog. She joins Ryan to discuss eighteenth-century literature, drama, and thought. Their conversation ranges from the historical importance of Cato, the eighteenth century’s Hamilton, to what 2001: A Space Odyssey can tell us about “the deep eighteenth century.” They also discuss the newest film adaption of Jane Austen’s Emma and the similarities between the comic novel and the movie Austenland. 

• Calling cards for social media

• Genealogical anxiety

• The quarrel of the ancients and the moderns

• Jonathan Swift’s The Battle of the Books

• The eighteenth century’s concern about forgeries

• Joseph Addison’s Cato

• Eighteenth-century drama

• The splendid vices/pagan virtues

• 2001: A Space Odyssey and the deep eighteenth century

• Period costume dramas

• Slapstick and the comic novel

Links:
Genealogies of Modernity Blog
The Battle of the Books by Jonathan Swift
Cato by Joseph Addison
Sermon by Amia Srinivasan
Austenland
Autumn de Wilde’s Emma