Wedgwood College

is an intimate group of gracious houses with lawns and trees,
in the village of Barlaston, outside Stoke on Trent

Literature Tutorial Series 2011/12

Nineteenth-Century Classics

Dates (Saturday – Sunday)
17-18 September 2011, 29-30 October 2011, 19-20 November 2011,
7-8 January 2012, 25-26 February 2012, 17-18 March 2012.

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The Tutors

Dr Jill Allaway is the Skills Officer in the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Salford. Jill's research interests include texts that deal with the passage of time, Victorian humour and Radical and working-class literature.

Dr Nick Bentley is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Keele University. His research interests include post-war British fiction, postcolonial writing and literary theory. He is author of Contemporary British Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2008); Radical Fictions: The English Novel in the 1950s (Peter Lang, 2007); and editor of British Fiction of the 1990s (Routledge, 2005). He is currently working on a book on Martin Amis for the Northcote House/British Council ‘Writers and Their Work’ series, and a book on the representation of youth subcultures in postwar and contemporary British fiction.

Dr Jerome de Groot teaches English Literature at the University of Manchester. His research interests include the 17th Century and modern British fiction. He is the author of Royalist Identities (2004) and Consuming History (2008). He is currently writing a study of the historical novel.

Dr Amber Regis is Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Chester, having taught previously at the universities of Keele, Liverpool John Moores and Salford. Her research interests lie in the area of nineteenth- and twentieth-century life writing, and she has published work on Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West and John Addington Symonds.

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The Course
This course focuses on nineteenth-century literary classics, from the Romantics to modernist re-assessments. It will discuss individual texts that have become part of the canon of English literature from the period, and identify what qualities they possess that have resulted in their centrality to literary culture. The texts will be discussed with reference to their literary form, their engagement with themes, and the historical context from which they emerged. Writers covered on the course will include Charles Dickens, Mary Shelley, Elizabeth Gaskell, Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Virginia Woolf and some selected Romantic poetry.

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The College
Students are welcome to arrive and book in from 3.00pm on each Saturday
Each weekend commences with afternoon tea at 4.00pm on Saturday in the Limes dining room and concludes with lunch at 1.00pm on Sunday

Fees for each individual weekend:
Single £81.50 Single En Suite £86.50 Shared £79.50 Shared En Suite £83.50 Non Resident £53.50 ** £40.00 non refundable deposit required on booking

Please contact the College for further details (Monday - Friday 9.00am – 4.30pm)
Wedgwood College and Conference Centre
Station Road Barlaston Stoke On Trent Staffs ST12 9DG
Telephone 01782 372105 email wedgwood.college@stoke.gov.uk

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The Books

Weekend 1, 17-18 September 2011
Eminent Victorians
Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, ed. by John Sutherland (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009)
Virginia Woolf, Flush, ed. by Kate Flint (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009)
Tutor: Dr Amber Regis

Weekend 2, 29-30 October 2011
Nineteenth-Century Gothic
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, ed. by Maurice Hindle (London: Penguin, 2003)
Selected Romantic poetry (photocopies provided)
Tutor: Dr Nick Bentley

Weekend 3, 19-20 November 2011
Political Gothic
William Godwin, Caleb Williams, ed. by Pamela Clemit (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009)
Selected Romantic poetry (photocopies provided)
Tutor: Dr Nick Bentley

Weekend 4, 7-8 January 2012
The ‘Condition of England’ Novel
Charles Dickens, Hard Times, ed. by Kate Flint (London: Penguin, 2003)
Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Barton, ed. by Shirley Foster (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008)
Tutor: Dr Amber Regis

Weekend 5, 25-26 February 2012
Romanticisms
Walter Scott, Waverley, ed. by Clare Lamont (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008)
Selected Romantic poetry: John Keats, William Wordsworth, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Lord Byron and P.B. Shelley (photocopies provided)
Selected Romantic prose: Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin (photocopies provided)
Tutor: Dr Jerome de Groot

Weekend 6, 17-18 March 2012
The ‘High Victorian’ Poets
Tennyson: selections from In Memoriam; “Mariana at the Moated Grange”; “Ulysses”
Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover”; “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
Arnold: “The Scholar-Gipsy”
(Jill will provide photocopies of the poems in advance)
Tutor: Dr Jill Allaway

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