Lecture Programme 2008-09
Lectures will be given in the Physics Lecture Theatre (over the bridge from the library) on Wednesdays at 12.00 noon.
Term 1
1 | 1Oct | Introduction to the course | Dr Macdonald |
2 | 8 Oct | Origins of the Novel | Prof Treglown |
3 | 15 Oct | The Novel and Romance (Werther) | Prof Bell |
4 | 22 Oct | The European Gothic Novel (Fnstn, Sinner) | Madeleine Wood |
5 | 29 Oct | The Novel and Authorship (Fnstn) | Dr Jenainati |
6 | 5 Nov | Reading Week - | No lecture |
7 | 12 Nov | Nationalism and the Novel (Sinner, S and B, Mme B) | Dr Gardiner |
8 | 19 Nov | Realism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (S and B, GE, Mme B, AK) | Dr Macdonald |
9 | 26 Nov | Gender, Plot and History (GE, Mme B, AK) | Dr Frith |
10 | 3 Dec | Readers in the Texts (S and B, Mme B, AK, CP) | Dr Macdonald |
Term 2
1 7 January Families and Narratives (GE, MB, AK) Dr Gardiner
2 14 January The Novel and Ideas (AK, CP) Dr Kooy
3 21 January The Novel and the City (GE, CP, Hunger) Dr Macdonald
4 28 January Character and the Unconscious (Sinner, AK, CP, Hunger) Dr Gardiner
5 4 February Naturalism (Germinal) Dr Macdonald
6 11 February Reading Week No lecture
7 18 February Ulysses and Modernism Dr Katz
8 25 February Literary and Non-Literary Languages (Hunger, Ulysses, Orlando) Dr Gardiner
9 4 March The European Gothic Novel (Fnstn, Sinner) Dr Wood
10 11 March Self-Conscious Fiction (Ulysses, Orlando) Dr Macdonald
Term 3
1 22 April The European Novel and “Globalisation” (Germinal, Orlando, The Atom Station) Dr Macdonald
2 29 April Conclusion: European and World Literature (Werther to The Atom Station) Dr Macdonald
3 6 May Revision Lecture (i) Dr Macdonald
4 13 May Revision Lecture (ii): Exam Briefing Dr Macdonald