Enlightenment and Literature with Kirsten Hall

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 Autumn de Wilde's Emma Austenland