Listen to Podcast This lecture compares West Indian writers Derek Walcott and Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul on their...

Listen to Podcast This lecture tackles head-on the issue of what 'realism' is - or rather, how the term has been used...

Listen to Podcast This lecture notes the power and range of Eliot's intellect, and her changing attitudes to the...

Listen to Podcast This lecture considers how narrative justice, and the genres of comedy and tragedy, relate to each...

Listen to Podcast This lecture traces the reception of George Eliot from her own time to the present. It traces the...

Watch Podcast This mini lecture explains why, to George Eliot, being truly intelligent entailed being moral, and vice...

Watch Podcast This lecture introduces one of the most important and vexed issues in D.H. Lawrence's thought and...

Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence's detractors and fans alike have long treated him as an entirely serious - or would-be...

Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence was brought up in Congregationalism, and although he left a belief in the exclusive truth...

Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence spent most of his life, after his elopement with Frieda Weekley, restlessly travelling the...

Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence first saw the Alps when he was eloping with his Professor's wife, Frieda Weekley. They...

Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence described flowers and children better than any other writer I can think of. This lecture,...

Watch Podcast D.H. Lawrence's reputation was much contested during his lifetime, and has fluctuated dramatically ever...

Watch Podcast This lecture considers one of the trickiest of literary devices to interpret and describe: the...

Watch Podcast Why are nearly all long prose works divided into chapters? This lecture considers the uses of chapters...

Watch Podcast What does it mean for a novel to be multi-plotted? Does not a novel has as many plots as characters? And...

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