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Research bites: literature of the long 18th century

‘We have extraordinary students, and exceptionally interesting colleagues, and their ideas, their enthusiasm informs my work and enriches it.’

Hear Dr Daisy Hay‘s thoughts about passion, life writing and archives in her research and teaching on the literature of the long eighteenth century.

Here’s Daisy’s book Young Romantics, and a Guardian review of her most recent, Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance – winner of a Somerset Maugham Award in 2016.

You can study with Daisy on her specialist option: EAS3178 Life Writing: History, Form, Practice.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K5hSQS9aO0]

Teaching bites: Imperial Encounters

Take a trip into the archive and explore the workings of Victorian adventure stories!

Dr Paul Young, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature & Cultures, gives you a taster of what you might study on the level 3 specialist option Imperial Encounters: Victorians and their World.

Take a look at the video below for a flavour of the kinds of texts and artefacts that will form a key part of your study in all things Victorian here at Exeter.

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Research bites: women writing cinema

How did writers respond to the birth of film? What impact did cinemagoing have on literary cultures – particularly for women, cinema’s dominant audience in its golden era? Dr Lisa Stead explores how women ‘penned the screen’ in pre- and interwar British literature.

Want to learn more? You can study with these artefacts and create your own video essay on the third year module EAF3236 The Dream Palace

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO9ZhUDkpwY]

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