Tutor information
David Grylls
Dr David Grylls was Director of Studies in English Literature and Creative Writing at OUDCE for many years, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century fiction and has published a number of books and articles, including Guardians and Angels: Parents and Children in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Faber, 1978), The Paradox of Gissing (Harper Collins,1986), What the Dickens: A Guide to Martin Chuzzlewit and Hard Times (BBC Education, 1994), and ‘Gissing and Prostitution’ in George Gissing and the Woman Question (Routledge, 2013).
Courses
Detective fiction was born in the Victorian period. Join us in Oxford for this in-person day school and learn from leading scholars about the rich diversity of Victorian detectives and detective writing, including, of course, Sherlock Holmes.
Passion, for Victorians, often conflicted with patriarchy and family values. Here we shall study love and families in fiction, poetry and drama. Authors will include George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, Trollope, Ibsen and Christina Rossetti.