2007 AM1 Outsiders in Victorian and Modernist Fiction
Questions and Materials
Contents
17.04.2007
Introduction. Technicalities. Discussing a focus: What will we be doing in this course?
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24.04.2007
Communicating with the Victorian audience.
Texts: Wuthering Heights, "Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell", "Editor's Preface to the New Edition" (p. 319ff and 324ff in Oxford World's Classics Edition) Jude the Obscure, "Preface to the first edition" (1895), "Postscript" (1912)
1.05.2007
public holiday
8.05.2007
Narration, mediation, time structure in Wuthering Heights
15.05.2007
Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange and the moor: spatial structure in Wuthering Heights
22.05.2007
Characters, outsiderdom, and the relevance of the social in Wuthering Heights
29.05.2007
Wuthering Heights: The Contemporary Reception
5.06.2007
Jude the Obscure: Narration and Space
12.06.2007
Jude the Obscure: Character Constellations and Problematic Marriages
19.06.2007
Jude the Obscure: Education and Class, Education and Failure
26.06.2007
Jude the Obscure: The Contemporary Reception and Hardy's public status
3.07.2007
Period Features: Outsiderdom and the Characteristics of the Victorian and Modernist periods
10.07.2007
Course Evaluation. - (Final Discussion)
Wuthering Heights goes pop: Kate Bush's song / video and the book
17.07.2007
Feedback on Course Evaluation. - Presentation of Reseach Paper Projects.