#greatwriters

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1 Why should we study Old English Literature? Dr Francis Leneghan of St Cross College, Oxford, discusses his current research around Beowulf and… Francis Leneghan
2 Victorian Realism and the Implied Reader Michael Whitworth, English Faculty, Oxford University, gives a lecture at the English Faculty Open… Michael Whitworth
3 Translations as Literature Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for the… Matthew Reynolds
4 3. Art and Morality Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of… Sos Eltis
5 Wolves and Winter: Old Norse Myths and Children's Literature Dr Carolyne Larrington, Supernumerary Fellow and Tutor in English, St John's College, gives a talk… Carolyne Larrington
6 2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the… Sos Eltis
7 1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art The first lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his… Sos Eltis
8 What's so great about Austen? Isn't she just bonnets and balls? Some film and tv adaptations of Jane Austen's novels might give the impression that the stories are… Sandie Byrne
9 Smallpox in poetry Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the… Elizabeth Atkinson
10 The poetry of war Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on… Abigail Williams
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