62 min listen
The Hyperlocal
ratings:
Length:
16 minutes
Released:
Jun 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Nicholas Birns talks about ‘the hyperlocal’, a modality of American journalism in the early 1990s that he adapts to characterize a flexible and transposable concept of the local used in eighteenth and nineteenth century British and American literatures.
Nicholas Birns teaches at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at New York University. He is the author of The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Space (Lexington, 2019). With Louis Klee, he is currently coexisting a companion to the Australian novel to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Image: “The Hyperlocal” © 2021 Saronik Bosu
Music used in promotional material: ‘It All Begins Here’ by Borrtex
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
Nicholas Birns teaches at the Center for Applied Liberal Arts at New York University. He is the author of The Hyperlocal in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literary Space (Lexington, 2019). With Louis Klee, he is currently coexisting a companion to the Australian novel to be published by Cambridge University Press.
Image: “The Hyperlocal” © 2021 Saronik Bosu
Music used in promotional material: ‘It All Begins Here’ by Borrtex
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
Released:
Jun 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Joanna Levin, “Bohemia in America, 1858-1920” (Stanford UP, 2010): You’ve probably heard of hipsters. Heck, you may even be a hipster. If you don’t know what a hipster is, you might spend some time on this sometimes entertaining website. Where do hipsters come from? Let’s work backwards. Before hipsters (1990s), by New Books in Literary Studies