Category Archives: Elizabeth Gaskell
Gaskell, “The Old Nurse’s Story”
I’m in the thick of my summer course: it’s hard to believe that we’ve already covered Pride and Prejudice, “The Two Drovers,” and Jane Eyre. I have a great group of students–they seem very engaged and a significant proportion of them are contributing with gusto to class discussion. But the assignments are starting to come [...]
This Week in My Classes (September 22, 2009)
Nearly two weeks in, we’ve moved past the throat-clearing stage in both of my classes and are deep into our first novels.
In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel from Dickens to Hardy I’m leading off with Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South this year. Last time I taught it I opened with Trollope’s The Warden, which I thoroughly [...]
Fiction and Development
Recently The Telegraph reported on the contribution fiction can make to international development, as examined by a study done by a team of scholars at Manchester University and the London School of Economics:
[Dr. Rodgers, of Manchester University's Brooks World Poverty Institude] said: “Despite the regular flow of academic studies, expert reports, and policy position papers, [...]
This Week in My Classes
The warm-up period is over: now we’re really getting down to work.
1. English 3032, 19thC Novel. This week, we start Great Expectations. In addition to placing the novel in the context of Dickens’s career and a range of social and intellectual issues (from the alienation induced by modern urban professional society, to [...]
Carlyle Letters Online
A fabulous new resource has just been opened up online by Duke University Press: the letters of Jane and Thomas Carlyle. I’ve only peered around briefly, but the site is very attractive and seems easy to use. More to the point, it gives us easy access to all kinds of gems, such as this one, [...]
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