| Unit name | Place in Victorian and Recent Fiction |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL30055 |
| Credit points | 30 |
| Level of study | H/6 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Pite |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
By looking at place in a number of Victorian novelists (George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope), this module will consider both particular locations ? their meaning and cultural resonances ? and the role of setting in the nineteenth-century novel. These examples will then be compared to the role of place in some contemporary fiction (Birmingham in David Lodge and Jonathan Coe, versions of the North in 1960s realism and Kate Atkinson, and depictions of the south). The comparison will lead to discussion of how place is mediated by writing and how it has altered over time. Discussion will be informed by comparisons with film and TV versions of the novels.
