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 106-056 'Character' and the Novel

Note

Formerly available as 106-281/381. Students who have completed 106-281/381 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Availability

2nd and 3rd year

Credit Points

12.5

Coordinator

Robin Grove

Prerequisites

Usually 25 points of first year English, see Prerequisites

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture per week and nine 2-hour tutorials scheduled across the semester

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) totalling 4000 words.

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