Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Literature of the English Country House
This course was an exploration of the literature of English country houses from the time of Thomas More to Oscar Wilde; introducing different ways of thinking about texts including close reading, material conditions and research approaches.
6 weeks, 3 hours per week
Professor Susan Fitzmaurice
School of English
The University of Sheffield
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate 'close reading' skills as the basis for your own literary interpretation
- Discuss the wide variety of ways country house literature has been composed, consumed and received over the centuries
- Engage with extracts from novels, poetry and drama from well-know authors as well as lesser known forms of writing from less familiar authors
- Investigate the role and representation of the English country house in literature
- Build your own literary interpretation of literature
- Explore literature in its original form and the context within which it was first written
Syllabus
- Extracts from novels, manuscripts, poetry and drama
- Selected works from Thomas More, Margaret Cavendish, Jane Austen, Ann Radcliffe, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde
- Lesser known forms of texts and less familiar authors
- Literary research approaches of experts from the University of Sheffield School of English
- The material conditions in which country house literature originally appeared
- The contexts within which literature was originally produced
- The history of country house literature, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
- View the stunning country house locations which inspired works of literature throughout the centuries
Issued on 17th March 2018
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