Writing The West: Literature & Place

"Introduction
Welcome to the Course
Meet the Team
Week 1
Introduction to Week 1
Step 4: Coleridge and the West Country
Step 5: Read Coleridge’s “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
Step 6: ""This Lime-Tree Bower"" on Location
Step 7: Discuss “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison”
Step 8: Test your knowledge of Coleridge
Step 9: Robert Southey, Bristolian Poet
Step 10: Southey’s West Country Inscriptions
Step 11: Discussion of Place and Commemoration
Step 12: The Avon Gorge and Bristol Romanticism
Step 13: Robert Lovell: Poet and Pantisocrat
Step 14: Read extracts from Robert Lovell’s Bristol: A Satire.
Step 15: Analysis of Robert Lovell’s Bristol.
Step 16: Tracing and Commemorating the Romantic Poets in Bristol & Beyond
Step 17: Test your knowledge of Bristol’s Romantic Poets
Step 18: Summary
Week 2
Week 2 Introduction
Step 1: The Significance of Bath to Austen’s Life
Step 2: Austen and Bath, 1797-1806
Step 3: Read an Extract from The Watsons
Step 4: The Watsons: Learner Discussion
Step 5: The Depiction of Bath in the Fiction: Northanger Abbey (Film)
Step 6: Northanger Abbey and Bath: Topography and Social Custom
Step 7: Read an Extract from Northanger Abbey
Step 8: Northanger Abbey: Learner Discussion
Step 9: Northanger Abbey Quiz
Step 10: The Depiction of Bath in the Fiction: Persuasion (Film)
Step 11: Persuasion and Bath: Character and Narrative Style
Step 12: Read an Extract from Persuasion
Step 13: Persuasion: Learner Discussion
Step 14: Persuasion Quiz
Step 15: Bath and Austen Now (Film)
Step 16: Bath and Austen Now
Step 17: Bath and Austen Now: Learner Discussion
Step 18: Summary
Week 3
Week 3 Introduction
Step 1: Film 1 Frankenstein and Bath
Step 2: Frankenstein and Bath
Step 3: Read an Extract from the “Creation” Chapter of Frankenstein
Step 4: The “Creation” Chapter: Learner Discussion
Step 5: Film 2 Frankenstein and Bristol
Step 6: Frankenstein and Bristol
Step 7: Read an Extract from the Creature’s Speech in Frankenstein
Step 8: Extract from the Creature’s Speech: Learner Discussion
Step 9: Test your knowledge of Mary Shelley
Step 10: ‘It lives’: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Science
Step 11: Read an Extract from the Preface to the 1831 Edition of Frankenstein
Step 12: Extract from the 1831 Preface: Learner Discussion
Step 13: Test your Knowledge of Mary Shelley, Frankenstein and Science
Step 14: Commemorating Frankenstein in Bath and Bristol
Step 15: Commemorating Frankenstein: Learner Discussion
Step 16: Summary
Week 4 Section 1
Week 4 Introduction
Step 1: Introduction
Step 2: Read ‘Domicilium’
Step 3: Discuss ‘Domicilium’
Step 4: Film 1: At Hardy’s Cottage
Step 5: Film 2: Sturminster Newton: Riverside Cottage and the River Stour
Step 6: Read ‘Overlooking the River Stour’
Step 7: Analysis of ‘Overlooking the River Stour’
Step 8: Film 3: The Return to Dorchester
Step 9: Film 4: At ‘Max Gate’
Step 10: Customary Culture and 'Old Association'
Week 4 Section 2: Landscape and Social Geography
Step 11: ‘Out of the Way Places’ (1)
Step 12: Discuss ‘Out of the Way Places’ (1)
Section 13: ‘Out of the Way Places’ (2)
Step 14: Film 5: ‘Out of the Way Places’ (3): On Location at Lambert’s Castle
Step 15: Social Geography and Social Transgression
Step 16: Discuss Steps 11-15
Week 4 Section 3: Landscape and the Self
Step 17: Read Extracts from Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Phase the Third
Step 18: Film 6: Looking towards Lower Lewell Farm (Talbothays)
Step 19: Discuss this section on Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Week 4 Section 4: The Idea and Uses of Wessex
Step 20: Hardy and ‘Wessex’
Step 21: Read the Preface to Far From the Madding Crowd.
Step 22: Discuss Hardy’s Preface to Far From the Madding Crowd
Step 23: Hardy and the Invention of Wessex
Step 24: Discussion
Step 25: Summary
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Questionnaire"