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Category: English Literature

Studying MA English as a mature student

Maggie and Clare both came back to university after a long break, having graduated 25 and 40 years ago respectively. They have both just finished the first year of the taught part time MA in English and we asked them how they found returning to studying after such a long time.

Remembering the Romantics: What We Learned from Our ‘Romantic Novels 1817’ Seminar Series

In our Romantic Novels 1817 seminar series, held in 2017, we chose six novels published in 1817, and invited an expert in the field to lead a discussion on each text. Co-funded by Romantic Bicentennials, the University of Greenwich, and Canterbury Christ Church University, Romantic Novels 1817 used the bicentenary as the perfect excuse to rethink our understanding of the Romantic Novel.

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: a bedfellow for the bicentenary?

The basis of Frankenstein is an experiment that pulls the rug from under its own repeatability. “Never will I create another like yourself,” says the scientist to his “odious handiwork.” The book itself, by the same token, is commonly considered a literary one-off. Mary Shelley, however, was not writing in a vacuum.