This lecture will explore Villette, examining Lucy Snowe’s unusual character, Brontë’s use of defamiliarization and withholding, the spectral nun, and the novel’s ambiguous and unexpected ending.
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Accredited courses include undergraduate and postgraduate level courses.
Life writing – whether memoir, biography, literary non-fiction, eye-witness accounts, blogs (the list goes on) – can be very powerful when told with brevity. Short-form writing is an end in itself; it also helps us focus on our writerly craft.
What makes gold sacred? Discover how artists in the Americas used this radiant material to create dazzling works of art, blending Indigenous traditions and Christian imagery in the Renaissance and Baroque.
This lecture will examine Shirley, exploring its contrasting heroines and heroes, Brontë’s treatment of gender roles, and the novel’s claim to be an early industrial novel.
This lecture will explore tradition and Modernism in the 1920s.
This lecture series will explore the art and architecture of the 1920s: the ‘Jazz Age’, which witnessed the earliest flowerings of Modernism. The ‘old’ was swept abruptly aside in favour of the ‘new’ - and the foundations were laid for the world of today.
This lecture will explore Anne Brontë’s Agnes Grey, examining its place among Victorian governess novels, its portrayal of women’s economic vulnerability, and the distinctive style that has led critics to reassess Anne Brontë’s literary reputation.
This lecture will will explore how Modernism came to dominate painting, sculpture, and architecture, and its pioneering artists..
This lecture will explore The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, examining Anne Brontë’s experimental narrative structure, its portrayal of abuse and female independence, Gilbert as hero, and the novel’s possible response to Wuthering Heights.
Short enough to write in a single day, flash fiction is an agile, innovative form that brings character, mood and language to the forefront. This online workshop is suitable for beginners and experienced writers.
This lecture will will explore the art deco Exposition that took place in Paris in 1925.
A practical course covering the craft of self-editing and revision, including learning to critically read your own work, developing personalised techniques for story-level and language-level rewriting, and knowing when it’s finished.