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Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here. The 2024 and 2025 archives are here. This episode, of which the first 15 minutes are free, is about Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. We discuss the collective biography of the Brontë family up until Emily and Anne’s death, then we consider the novel’s beginning in the mode of Gothic romance and ending in that of domestic realism, its intricate structure and nested narrators, the combination of social and metaphysical meanings the narrative may hold, Brontë’s dialogue with the Romantic tradition and with Milton, interpretations of the novel offered by prominent critics (Terry Eagleton, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, Nancy Armstrong, Camille Paglia), and more. Please also like, share, comment, and subscribe! The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded behind the paywall:
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com
Welcome back to The Invisible College, my series of literature courses for paid subscribers. The introduction to and schedule for the 2026 season is here. The 2024 and 2025 archives are here. This episode on Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives is free in its entirety. We discuss Bolaño’s romanticism and anarchism, his descent from Troubadours and American novelists, his polemics on Latin American literature, his attempt to create a truly revolutionary art, love, and politics inassimilable to totalizing institutions, his cosmic or gnostic dimension, and much more. Please enjoy! Please also like, share, comment, and subscribe The slideshow corresponding to the episode can be downloaded here: