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The Gilded Age Recap with Dr. Sheila Liming
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Dr. Sheila Liming, a Gilded Age literature (specifically Edith Wharton) scholar, joins me to deep dive HBO's The Gilded Age series. She explains the show's historical accuracies and inaccuracies, and whether or not the show borrows from Wharton's novels like The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence?
Sheila addresses whether or not she thinks the show is doing a good job at representing social class issues…
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