Summer 2018 Mini-Series: Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians   Mini-Series Episode 1 – What is Adaptation?   The sun is shining, the skies are blue, it’s warm and everybody wants to be outside. It’s summertime, and what

Introduction: Welcome to the second episode of our 2018 mini-series, “Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians”! Today, we’re going to talk about Victorian Medievalism, focusing on poetry. As mentioned in the first episode of the mini-series, the

Around the World in the Medieval Period 525 – Anno Domini calendar invented 529-34 – Code of Justinian issued 590 – Gregory the Great becomes pope 618 – the Tang Dynasty begins in China (in one folklore tradition, this is the dyna

IMPORTANT NOTE: We experienced some technical difficulties in recording this episode and at times Ben’s audio is missing or corrupted. I (Eleanor) have done my best to clean this up but please bear with us on this! Welcome to the third episode of o

Hi everyone, welcome to episode four of our summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians! Today we’re going to chat about art adaptations, though I have a feeling I’m going rogue by using that term in regard to art at all. Her

Dr. Wager and I continue our conversation about Victorian Art / Art Adaptations. Things we mentioned: Poison Wallpaper William Morris Archive William Morris’s News From Nowhere Thomas Hood’s “The Song of the Shirt” Elizabeth Car

Hi everyone, welcome back to our ongoing summer 2018 mini-series, Victorian Adaptations / Adapting the Victorians, this is Courtney and I’m recording solo today. Over the course of the next thirty or so minutes, I’m going to sketch out the definitions of

Adaptations mentioned: Daniel Deronda on IMDB Daniel Deronda on the BBC’s website Middlemarch on IMDB North and South on IMDB North and South on BBC iPlayer War and Peace (series) on IMDB War and Peace (series) on BBC iPlayer War and Peace (film) o