Excerpts from two conversations explore love, gender, sexuality, and literature from classical antiquity into the modern world. Linda Kauffman discusses her book Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre, and Epistolary Fictions.
The second segment [14:50] features Robert Hanning, a participant in a conference called “Love, Marriage, Friendship, and Sex in the Middle Ages,” which was held at the National Humanities Center in fall 1986.
At the time of this interview, Kauffman, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1983-84), was professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hanning was professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
