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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-111 Popular Literature of the Early 19th Century

Credit Points:

12.5 1st year

Coordinator:

Robin Grove

Timetable:

Semester 1

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

This subject provides an introduction to the making of literary celebrity in a time of rapid readership-expansion. Through attention to the effects of culture, class and media in shaping taste, it considers the tension between the terms 'popular' and 'literary', and the place of Establishment art in English society, together with the challenges to such art. It gives roughly equal attention to poetry and fiction, developing skills in close reading so as to form an introduction to critical and creative aspects of writing.

Assessment:

Written work of not more than 4000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

Course reader available from the department.

  • J Austen, Emma, Penguin.
  • C Bronte, Jane Eyre, World's Classics.
  • C Dickens, Oliver Twist, World's Classics.
  • E Gaskell, Mary Barton, Penguin.
  • M Shelley, Frankenstein, World's Classics.
  • D Wright (ed), The Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse
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