About this episode

The episode introduces Season 6, focusing on Jane Austen's Persuasion and exploring themes of love and aging.

We're returning to our roots with Season 6 of Hot and Bothered – reading classic romance literature. This season, Vanessa Zoltan will be joined by her mentor Dr. Stephanie Paulsell to read Jane Austen's Persuasion one chapter at a time. We'll ask questions about grief, beauty, aging, and, of course, love. If you want to be part of the conversation, you can join us for our weekly class which will follow each episode of the podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Host: Vanessa Zoltan

Guest: Dr. Stephanie Paulsell

Topics covered

• classic romance literature
• Jane Austen
• grief
• beauty
• aging
• love

Keywords

• Jane Austen
• Persuasion
• romance literature
• grief
• beauty
• aging
• love

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Jane Austen's Persuasion

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