Eugene Goodheart speaks about his book Desire and Its Discontents, a cultural study of the self, ideology, and desire.
In the second segment [14:00], Carl Woodring discusses the research and writing that resulted in his book Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain.
At the time of these interviews, Goodheart, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1987-88), was professor of English at Brandeis University.
Woodring, also a Fellow at the Center (1987-88), was professor of English at Columbia University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
