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 106-281 'Character' and the Novel

Note

Available as 106-381 at 3rd-year level.

Credit Points

16.7 2nd and 3rd year

Coordinator

Robin Grove

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) of 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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