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Is there any truth in biographical fictions? |
In 2006 David Lodge expressed surprise at how popular biographical novels have become. Also… |
Katherine Collins |
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Reading between life and work: Reflections on J.M. Coetzee’s life-writing |
The work of J.M. Coetzee – the novels, taken together with the memoirs and the critical essays –… |
Elleke Boehmer |
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Making Oscar Wilde |
A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Michele Mendelssohn, literary critic and cultural historian. Dr… |
Michèle Mendelssohn, Sos Eltis, Hermione Lee, Charles Foster |
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Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial |
In this Open Day taster lecture, Sos Eltis explores the complex causes which motivated Oscar Wilde’… |
Sos Eltis |
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Edward Lear's Feelings: Wonder |
This programme examines different meanings of 'wonder' in Lear - as both a positive and a negative… |
Jasmine Jagger, Matthew Bevis |
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Walt Whitman, poet and democrat |
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James Joyce: A Biography |
James Augustine Joyce, the eldest surviving son of John Stanislaus Joyce and Mary Jane ('May')… |
Cleo Hanaway |
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Photograph of Oscar Wilde |
By Napoleon Sarony (Library of Congress) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons |
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The Importance of Being Wilde |
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)… |
Kate O'Connor |
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Aphra Behn |
Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was a bold, salacious, and pioneering individual. If Frances Burney made… |
Kate O'Connor |
