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Handbook 1997 : Faculty of Arts : English

106-281/381 'Character' and the Novel

Credit Points:

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator:

Robin Grove

Timetable:

Semester 2

Contact:

One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week

Subject Description:

This subject investigates some ideas of self and self-presentation in English novels (mainly 19th century). It considers the intellectual and social pressures which help to promote concepts of 'character' as central to fiction, and focuses on questions of authority, wealth, gender and morality, in the context of changing social practices and beliefs.

Assessment:

Coursework-based exercises (both critical and creative) not more than 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts:

  • J Austen, Mansfield Park, Penguin.
  • E Brontë, Wuthering Heights, World's Classics.
  • C Dickens, Dombey and Son, Penguin.
  • G Eliot, Middlemarch, Penguin.
  • T Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Methuen.
  • V Woolf, Between the Acts, Penguin.
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