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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 Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. We consider the novel’s mix of Gothic romance with social realism, its invitation to a psychological reading and projection of the psyche onto exteriors and landscapes, its allegorical and Christian quality, its nostalgia for the Romantic era, its political implications for questions of gender and empire and class, its changing reputation in modern criticism, 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
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: