Shakespeare, Religion, and Literary Criticism, with guest Charles LaPorte, University of Washington

November 08, 2021 00:51:27
Shakespeare, Religion, and Literary Criticism, with guest Charles LaPorte, University of Washington
Faith and Imagination: A BYU Humanities Center Podcast
Shakespeare, Religion, and Literary Criticism, with guest Charles LaPorte, University of Washington

Nov 08 2021 | 00:51:27

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Show Notes

Charles LaPorte is Professor of English at the University of Washington and the author of two excellent books on the intersection of literature and religion: Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible, published in 2011, and, just this year, The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare: Bardology in the Nineteenth Century. We discuss ways that nineteenth-century readers engaged Shakespeare as they would sacred texts – and how that approach continues to describe literary studies even in our secular age.

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