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The Modernist ‘Day Novel’ looks at 3 novels set over the course of a day: Untouchable by M. R. Anand (1935), Ulysses by James Joyce (1922), and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925). 3 talks and a Q&A will consider the enduring appeal of the ‘day novel’.
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.
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 series explores America’s War of Independence from 1775-1815, really its first Civil War. It pitched Americans against Americans: Patriots vs Loyalists. This examines perspectives from the victors and the vanquished.
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.
The First World War was a cataclysmic event. This course examines international relations before 1914, the countries which fought the war, how it started, the expectations of the participants, and assesses the war's historical significance,
Investigate the emergence of architecture, from the earliest towns of the Neolithic to the Roman Empire. Explore urban form, construction materials and techniques, and discover how these how ancient building cultures influenced each other.
