4 February 2020: Hard to imagine a podcast better tailored to yours truly than this latest episode of Decoder Ring. Here's the intro:
"One hundred and fifty years ago, Lord Byron and Harriet Beecher Stowe collided in the pages of the Atlantic. The resulting smash up endangered an August American publication altered the reputations of two of the most famous in their time authors that have ever lived and most lastingly besmirched the less famous woman at the story’s center. At issue were so many of the topics that are still consuming us today civility, celebrity, feminism, fairness, fake news and bad literary men. Also, it’s hella juicy. So today, undercoating. What did Cancel culture look like in the 1860s?"
Give it a listen!
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