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On this trip, we're looking at the conventional candidate for the first modern novel in English. Defoe's story of a resourceful man shipwrecked on a desert island is so much more than a ripping yarn: it speaks to the rise of a literary vernacular language, the values of an increasing bourgeois and expansionist society, and of spiritual awakening. Come aboard!

Text: https://ia600207.us.archive.org/26/items/cu31924011498676/cu31924011498676.pdf

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"Theme from Emergency!" by Nelson Riddle. https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_206

"The Ballad of Gilligan's Island" by Sherwood Schwartz. https://archive.org/details/tvtunes_275

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For you today, Trick or Treaters, a discussion of what some critics assert is the first modern ghost story in English: Daniel Defoe's 1705 "The Apparition of Mrs. Veal."

The text: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36587/36587-h/36587-h.htm

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Well, I probably should have done this episode earlier, since it might have been good for it to precede our other discussions of Resto comedy. But I made a last minute decision and included a second play, which kind of threw off the old chronology. But it's good all the same!

The Man of Mode by George Etherege: https://coldreads.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/the-man-of-mode.pdf

The Way of the World by William Congreve: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1292/1292-h/1292-h.htm

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