Latest / Smith & Waugh Talk About Satire
EP92. Smith & Waugh's Satirical Voyage: From Jonathan Swift to H G Wells
This is NOT a Halloween special.
Instead, this podcast is celebrating the 300th birthday of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels with something altogether more fantastical: a recording of our live event exploring fantastic voyages in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature.
Join us, as we journey from Swift's Gulliver's Travels to H. G. Wells's The Time Machine, exploring how imaginary worlds allow writers to reflect on, critique and reimagine their own.
Along the way, we encounter some wonderfully strange and overlooked literary destinations, including Peter Wilkins's The Life and…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.