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Faculty of English - Introductions

Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

This series brings together lectures given by members of Oxford’s Faculty of English as Open Day taster lectures or as introductory lectures for undergraduates. The series covers a diverse range of topics, drawing on the Faculty’s wide-ranging research into English Language and Literature.

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Episode	Description	People	Date
Theatre, 1660-1760 - The Arrival of the Actress	David Taylor on the arrival of female actors on the stage.	David Taylor	14 March, 2019
Theatre, 1660-1760 - Restoration and Change	David Taylor lectures on the reopening of the theatres in the 1660s.	David Taylor	14 March, 2019
Race and Empire, 1660-1760	Ruth Scobie lectures on race and empire, 1660-1760.	Ruth Scobie	14 March, 2019
Drama and the Theatre, 1660-1760	Abigail Williams lectures on the staging of Restoration drama.	Abigail Williams	14 March, 2019
Literature and Gender, 1660-1760	Kathleen Keown considers representations of gender in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.	Kathleen Keown	7 March, 2019
Manuscript and Print, 1660–1760	Carly Watson outlines the material forms in which literary texts circulated between 1660 and 1760.	Carly Watson	7 March, 2019
What is a Literary Period?	Clare Bucknell considers how we define a literary period.	Clare Bucknell	7 March, 2019
Nineteenth-Century Stuff - Dickens, Paperwork and Paper Sorrows	Sophie Ratcliffe investigates the material culture of the Victorians, using examples from Charles Dickens.	Sophie Ratcliffe	7 March, 2019
What is a War Poem?	Kate McLoughlin explores how we might define a war poem.	Kate McLoughlin	7 March, 2019
Diaries as Literature - The Case of Virginia Woolf	Michael Whitworth considers whether diaries are literature, looking particularly at the diaries of Virginia Woolf.	Michael Whitworth	7 March, 2019
Character in Modern Drama	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr investigates 'character' in Modern Drama	Kirsten Shepherd-Barr	7 March, 2019
Brilliant Paradoxes and Corrosive Epigrams; or Why Oscar Wilde Went to Trial	Sos Eltis looks at Oscar Wilde’s 1895 trial.	Sos Eltis	4 March, 2019

Faculty of English - Introductions

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