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Challenging the Canon
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Why should we study Old English Literature?

Dr Francis Leneghan of St Cross College, Oxford, discusses his current research around Beowulf and proposes why we should still study Old English Literature.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Victorian Realism and the Implied Reader

Michael Whitworth, English Faculty, Oxford University, gives a lecture at the English Faculty Open day around Victorian literature.
Alumni Weekend

Translations as Literature

Matthew Reynolds, Fellow and Tutor in English Language and Literature, Oxford, gives a talk for the 2013 Oxford Alumni Weekend.
Oscar Wilde

3. Art and Morality

Sos Eltis gives the third lecture in the series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on Wilde's concept of morality shown in his works including the Picture of Dorian Gray, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Devoted Friend.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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 to accompany the exhibition 'Magical Books: From The Middle Ages to Middle Earth'.
Oscar Wilde

2. Wilde, Victorian and Modernist

Sos Eltis gives the second lecture in her series on Oscar Wilde, focussing on his place in the modernist tradition.
Oscar Wilde

1. The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art

First lecture in the Oscar Wilde series in which Sos Eltis talks about Wilde's life and his work, De Profundis.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

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 little more than Mills and Boon-type romances in empire-line frocks.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Smallpox in poetry

Smallpox was rife in the eighteenth century, leaving its mark both on its sufferers, and on the literature of the period. This podcast explores its history in verse.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The poetry of war

Explores the aesthetics and impact of war poetry in the early eighteenth century, focussing on Joseph Addison's poem, The Campaign.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The Ladle: a comic poem

Matthew Prior's The Ladle was one of the most popular poems of the eighteenth century. This podcast explores its appeal.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Music in miscellanies

Much popular music of the eighteenth century is found in poetic miscellanies. But how was it performed?
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Pastoral Poetry

Introduces the poetry of rural life, and its debt to classical sources.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Politics in poetry

This podcast explores the culture of Jacobitism in the eighteenth century, using a popular ballad.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

The life of epigrams

This podcasts introduces the popular eighteenth century epigram.
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Petticoats and fashion

An introduction to the world of fashion and the politics of the petticoat, seen through the poetry of the time.
Challenging the Canon

Information about Great Writers Inspire

Further information about the educational resource: http://writersinspire.org.
Challenging the Canon
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Why should we study Elizabethan Theatre?

Professor Tiffany Stern of University College, Oxford, discusses her current research and proposes why we should still study Elizabethan Theatre.
Challenging the Canon

Why should we study medieval romance?

Dr Nicholas Perkins of St Hugh's College, Oxford, discusses his current research and proposes why we should still study medieval romance.
Cultural Connections: exchanging knowledge and widening participation in the Humanities

13.Bodleian Ballads Online: engagement for performance, teaching and research.

Cultural Connections talk by Giles Bergel. Part of the Digital Humanities @ Oxford Summer School 2013.

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