Literature: British Literature in the Belle Epoque.
Course details
Course code
Q00017457Course date
Number of classes
10 sessionsTimetable
Tutor
Stephen SmithFee range
How you'll learn
Venue
OnlineLevel of study
Entry Levels 1,2,3: If you have never studied this subject before and you’re not confident in your skills, Entry levels are a good starting point.
Level 1: Covers basic skills and knowledge needed for this subject
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Course overview
Course description
We will begin our discussion with The Turn of the Screw and
discuss its perception of the ghost story genre, the roles
assigned to women and the emerging practice of
psychoanalysis. Our second text, Wind in the Willows, long
known as a children’s book, will reveal to us that it is in fact an
elaborate form of social commentary on late Victorian Britain,
and we will discover those emerging concerns which related
to class in that era.
When we turn to Lawrence, we will trace the continuation of
the emerging movement towards suffrage and relate this to
the earlier positions of women glimpsed in James’ text. We
will aim to restore Lawrence to his position as a subtle
interpreter of the social situation in the Edwardian novel. This
concern with social positions and hierarchies will continue
into Ford’s text, and here we shall speculate about the rise of
Modernism, before we arrive at Hardy’s poetry and evaluate
his role as a bridge between the Victorian Age and the new
Modernist poets.
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