78. The Gillian Beer Fan Club
Portrait of Gillian Beer by Katherine Firth
In this week’s mini, we’re discussing the life and work of literary critic Gillian Beer whose classic scholarly publication from 1983, Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth Century Fiction, should be essential reading for anyone who loves 19th century literature.
Discussed in this episode:
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Lost Ladies of Lit episode on Rosamond Lehmann and Dusty Answer with Lucy Scholes
Meredith: A Change of Masks by Gillian Beer
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Arguing with the Past by Gillian Beer
Stations Without Signs by Gillian Beer
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground by Gillian Beer
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll by Gillian Beer