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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.
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We are student researchers
It’s not just staff who actively research in English at Exeter: we encourage you to develop your own skills as a researcher, and give you unique opportunities to develop your original work to the highest level. Many of our students publish in The Undergraduate, for example – a multidisciplinary journal of undergraduate students, run by and for undergraduates at Exeter. Editors Caroline Hughes and Rosemary Lennie are here to introduce you to the work the Journal does.
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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
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