Art and the senses: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Perfume
The livingroom Percy Road, London‘O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts,' exclaimed John Keats in 1817. This course is dedicated to exploring ways in which writers present sensory pleasure. Concentrating chiefly - […]
Fin de siecle Angst: Dracula and Heart of Darkness
The livingroom Percy Road, LondonThe nineteenth-century fin de siècle proved a catalyst for a series of anxieties that emerged during the Victorian period. Loss of religious faith, rise of the occult, fears about the effects […]
Fin de siecle Angst (Part ii): Heart of Darkness
The livingroom Percy Road, LondonThe nineteenth-century fin de siècle proved a catalyst for a series of anxieties that emerged during the Victorian period. Loss of religious faith, rise of the occult, fears about the effects […]
Christmas Bite: Ethan Frome
The livingroom Percy Road, London'A sad tale is best for winter', says Mamillius, Hermione's son in The Winter's Tale, and Wharton's short novel, Ethan Frome is certainly a good test case of his thesis. […]
Christmas Bite: Ethan Frome
The livingroom Percy Road, London‘A sad tale is best for winter’, says Mamillius, Hermione's son in The Winter’s Tale, and Wharton’s short novel, Ethan Frome is certainly a good test case of his thesis. Set […]
Christmas Bite: Ethan Frome
The livingroom Percy Road, London‘A sad tale is best for winter’, says Mamillius, Hermione's son in The Winter’s Tale, and Wharton’s short novel, Ethan Frome is certainly a good test case of his thesis. Set […]
Christmas Bite: Ethan Frome
The livingroom Percy Road, London‘A sad tale is best for winter’, says Mamillius, Hermione's son in The Winter’s Tale, and Wharton’s short novel, Ethan Frome is certainly a good test case of his thesis. Set […]
Fitzgerald and the ‘roaring 20s’
The livingroom Percy Road, LondonF. Scott Fitzgerald didn’t just write about the glamour, excess and hangover of the ‘roaring 20s’; he lived them too. His works chart the stunning rise and dizzying fall of […]
The Brontes and the Road Less Travelled
Villette (Charlotte Bronte) and Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte) Both texts have long been unfavourably compared with the more celebrated Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights despite sharing many of their subversive qualities: Anne’s […]