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The Rise of the British Spy Novel
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Aug 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
(Lucy) Death rays, invasions, and bombs, oh my! From Kipling’s “Great Game” to John Buchan’s 39 Steps, the rise of espionage in fiction mirrored British anxieties about the world and its place in it. Idealism and social criticism were often closely linked, with unlikely heroes (and sometimes heroines) being plucked from obscurity to save the day… and sometimes the world. This episode discusses how the tropes of British spy fiction were formed and transcended in the first half of the twentieth century.
Released:
Aug 27, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Henry II and the Invasion of Ireland: (Christine) The English and the Irish have been fighting (and singing) about hating one another) for as long as both sides can remember, but what brought the English to Ireland in the first place? What did the English king, Henry II, have to do with it? A by Footnoting History