Quarantine has us creeping up and down the walls, so we’re turning to some of our favorite women authors of the 19th and 20th centuries and relating to them in whole new ways. We talk about feeling trapped inside the home in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” appreciating life after close encounters with death in "Mrs. Dalloway," and finding a little hope in Emily Dickinson. Mild spoilers for "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker."
Cited in this episode:
Dickinson, Emily. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.’ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314
Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. “Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the
Anxiety of Authorship.” The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends,
edited by David H. Richter, Shorter Third Edition, Bedford/St. Martins, 2016, pp.
902-915.
Kindley, Evan. “Why Anxious Readers Under Quarantine Turn to ‘Mrs. Daloway.’” The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/why-anxious-readers-under-quarantine-turn-to-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway
The music used in this episode is "Lost Souls" by Portrayal freemusicarchive.org/music/Portraya…l_-_Lost_Souls used under an attribution license creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
