Week-by-Week Syllabus
Critical reading will be posted in the uploads page.
Week One: Introductions and essays from Sketches by Boz.
Week Two: Oliver Twist.
Week Three: Bleak House
Week Four: Bleak House cont.
Week Five: BBC adaptation of Bleak House
Week Six: Great Expectations
Week Seven: Great Expectations and Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs
Week Eight: Film adaptations (Lean and Polanski of Oliver Twist; Lean and Cuarón of Great
Expectations)
Week Nine: Our Mutual Friend cont. and essays from ‘The Uncommercial Traveller’ series
Week Ten: Our Mutual Friend inc BBC adaptation