Novel Approaches

London Review of Books

Clare Bucknell, Thomas Jones and guests discuss a selection of 19th-century (mostly) English novels from Mansfield Park to New Grub Street, looking in particular at the roles played in the books by money and property.
Novels covered:
Mansfield Park (1814) by Jane Austen
Crotchet Castle (1831) by Thomas Love Peacock
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
Vanity Fair (1847) by William Makepeace Thackeray
North and South (1854) by Elizabeth Gaskell
Aurora Leigh (1856) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot
Our Mutual Friend (1864) by Charles Dickens
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) by Anthony Trollope
Washington Square (1880)/Portrait (1881) by Henry James
Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy
New Grub Street (1891) by George Gissing

No. of episodes: 15
Latest episode: 2025-12-29
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How many episodes are there of Novel Approaches?

There are 15 episodes avaiable of Novel Approaches.

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The first episode of Novel Approaches that we have available was released 5 January 2025.

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