The Monthly Read
Join our monthly seminar-style sessions led by a University tutor to discuss popular and little-known fiction. Sign up for 3 months at a time; each term a new topic and a new set of novels. These stimulating discussions will help you get the most out of your reading and give you an opportunity to discuss books with other people from Bristol and the surrounding communities.
Contacts
Please address any enquiries about the courses to:
Department of English Part-time Courses
School of Humanities
3-5 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB
Email: english-lifelong@bristol.ac.uk
Tel: 0117 928 8924
The Monthly Read: Spring 2023
| Details | Description |
|---|---|
| When | Wednesday afternoons 2 pm to 4:30 pm |
| Dates |
3 meetings Dates: 22 February, 22 March, 19 April 2023 |
| Where |
University of Bristol, Arts Complex, Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB. |
| Tutor |
Dr Stephen Derry |
| Description |
Faces and Fortunes Join our monthly seminar-style sessions led by a University tutor to discuss popular and little-known fiction. Faces are of central significance in all three of these Victorian fictions of double lives: Ellen Wood's melodramatic romance, possibly the best-selling novel of the 19th Century, Anthony Hope's adventurous intrigue, which introduced the word "Ruritanian" into the language and Oscar Wilde's scandalous tale of fin-de-siecle damnation. |
| Texts |
February: East Lynne, Mrs Henry Wood (1861) |
| Course fee |
£120 |
| Previous qualifications/experience | No qualifications needed. Open to the public. |
What our students say...
The course has been a beacon of purpose, focus, excitement, intellectual enlightenment and inspiration. I love that I learn something new each time and go away with ideas of other texts to read. I feel that the course has given me intellectual inspiration and lifted me up.
The sessions were extremely stimulating and I, for one, have never had any confidence in my abilities to analyse academically, feel a glimmer that perhaps I can contribute something useful to a discussion. By the third session I began to feel that I could definitely build on the confidence I gained. I have learnt to speak out in what was an extremely encouraging and safe environment. A new experience for me and very exciting!