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| # | Title | Description | Contributor |
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| 1 | 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist |
Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the... |
Sos Eltis |
| 2 | Why should we study Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford, discusses his current research and... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Ilana Lassman |
| 3 | Dickens' Railways |
Professor Stephen Gill, Lincoln College, gives a talk about the influence the Railways had on... |
Stephen Gill |
| 4 | Oscar Wilde's Women |
Sophie Duncan introduces Oscar Wilde by setting him in an accurate historical context. |
Sophie Duncan |
| 5 | Julian Thompson on Rudyard Kipling |
Dr Julian Thompson considers a writer described by Kingsley Amis as 'our greatest writer of... |
Julian Thompson |
| 6 | A Discussion of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early, took my dog'. |
Dr Sally Bayley presents an illuminating reading of Emily Dickinson's 'I started early... |
Sally Bayley |
| 7 | Why Dickens? |
Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst talks of Dickens' life and influences and why these have made... |
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst |
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| 1 | Character and Environment in Thomas Hardy's Fiction |
Thomas Hardy was born in Upper Bockhampton, Dorset and lived within the county for much of his... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 2 | Thomas Hardy |
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), novelist and poet, was born on 2 June 1840, in Higher Bockhampton,... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| 3 | Spiritualism, Science and Atavism |
In the Victorian era, Gothic fiction had ceased to be a dominant literary genre. However, the... |
Charlotte Barrett |
| # | Title | Description | Author |
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| 1 | 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist (handout) |
Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the... |
Sos Eltis |
| 2 | The Turn of the Screw |
Henry James'novella, the ghost story 'The Turn of the Screw', first published in 1898. |
Henry James |
| 3 | The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (vol 1) | Thomas Hardy | |
| 4 | The Mayor of Casterbridge | Thomas Hardy | |
| 5 | Far From the Madding Crowd | Thomas Hardy | |
| 6 | The Woodlanders |
In three volumes. |
Thomas Hardy |
| 7 | The Return of the Native | Thomas Hardy |
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| 1 | Illustrated Cover for 'The Woman in White' |
Cover art Chatto & Windus: London, 1889. Yellowback [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons... |