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Welcome. This homepage provides access to material relating to two Honours modules: Self and Society in the Victorian Novel (EN3040), and Thomas Hardy (EN3062).

EN3040 Self and Society in the Victorian Novel

Vanity Fair This links to the lecture on this novel.

Villette This links to the lecture on this novel.

Jane Eyre This links to the material used for the seminar for EN3040 on Jane Eyre

Women and the Law in Victorian England This links to a summary of the main provisions of the laws relating to (especially) married women in the Victorian period.

Views of Drudgery This links to a group of texts on the subject of manual and industrial work in the Victorian period.

The Nineteenth-Century City This links to a nineteenth-century city web site, by Z.Ashe.

Middlemarch This link offers a brief summary of the lecture on Middlemarch for EN3040.

Some prompts for reading Lawrence on Hardy This links to two groups of quotations which may help to focus a reading of Lawrence's 'Study of Thomas Hardy'.


EN3062 Thomas Hardy

Jude the Obscure This links to a summary of the lecture on Jude the Obscure for EN3062; some of the argument of this lecture will also be relevant to EN3040.

The Mayor of Casterbridge. This links to a version of the lecture on this novel.

Lives of Thomas Hardy This links to a short review essay commenting on a number of biographies of Hardy.

Thomas Hardy Resource Library This links to a Thomas Hardy Web site, which includes some texts, maps and pictures, as well as links to other sites which may be of interest.

Thomas Hardy and the Boer War


On Liking Emma This link is to an essay on Jane Austen's Emma , which is the basis of the lecture to module EN2002 on Comedy and Society.


The Rape of the Lock This links to the text of a lecture for the module EN2002 Comedy and Society on Pope's The Rape of the Lock.

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