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Novels That Shaped Our World
Examining the novel from three unique perspectives.
Novels That Shaped Our World Episodes
Series 1: 3. The Class Ceiling
Class is present from the time the very first novels in English appeared. This episode begins with one of the most famous portrayals of the fate of the poor and the destitute - ...
22-05-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. The Empire Writes Back
Robinson Crusoe, the hero of the first ever novel published in English, in 1719, was a slave trader. Right from its inception, as this programme investigates, the English novel ...
15-05-2023
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. A Woman's Place
Ever since Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela, published in 1740, the novel has been a predominantly female literary form, offering far more opportunities to women writers than an ...
01-05-2023
BBC 4