Choices

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Choices Other Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials Other Subjects

If you wish to enquire about a subject not listed, please email Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite, Senior Tutor

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Bear in mind that your home institution will also have to approve the tutorial for major/minor credit, or to fulfil distribution requirements.

In addition to the topics listed, it is possible to arrange essay tutorials in most field of the humanities, including most major European and Asian languages. Tutorials in Environmental Studies (literary and non-fiction writing) are listed under English above. It is often possible to arrange tutorials in the social sciences and some areas of mathematics and psychology. (Recent examples of ‘off list’ tutorials have included Post-Colonial Africa, International Economic Governance, and Psychology of Child Development.) Tutorials in lab sciences or studio art cannot be offered.

Gothic Nature

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Gothic Nature ENAM 0365 Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 08/13/2020 - 16:20 Tutorials English & American Literature Other Subjects Autumn 2022 Autumn 2023 Autumn 2024 Autumn 2025 Spring 2023 Spring 2024 Spring 2025 Spring 2026

The rise of gothic fiction in the latter part of the eighteenth century was part of a cultural and artistic revaluation of traditional conceptions of our relationship to the natural world. As Augustan notions of an ordered and benevolent Nature were challenged by the political realities of British life, including population growth, expansion of urban environments and greater awareness of global geographies, the natural world was increasingly figured as a place of sublime and even supernatural power. This course uses eighteenth and nineteenth century notions of the sublime as a starting point for exploring British writers’ vexed connections to a landscape which inspires both awe and horror.

Sample Topics may include

Theories of the sublime from Addison to Kant
Romantic sublimity and the Alps
Habitations and hauntings: Graveyards, ruins and ‘eternity’ in the poetic imagination
The Gothic wilderness in the novels of the Brontes
The sublime city
Turner and Thomson, Young and Blake: Illustrating the Romantic Landscape
Horror and dystopia in the natural world
Spots of Time: The psychology of the Gothic landscape
‘Natural Supernaturalism’: Uncanny Landscapes
Gothic medievalism and the British Isles
Gothic landscapes and the monstrous feminine
Ecogothic: politics of Gothic Nature