Gresham College Lectures
Gresham College has been providing free public lectures since 1597, making us London's oldest higher education institution. This podcast offers our recorded lectures that are free to access from the Gresham College website, or our YouTube channel.
Gresham College Lectures
Christianity and Literature: Are happy endings real?
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The enormous suffering experienced during the 20th century, combined with the insights of that master of suspicion, Sigmund Freud, has made us deeply sceptical about the possibility of happy endings, popular though they are amongst readers. This is an issue for novelists and presses in a...