Tutor information
David Grylls
Dr David Grylls was Director of Studies in English Literature and Creative Writing at OUDCE for many years, and is an Emeritus Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is a specialist in nineteenth-century fiction and has published a number of books and articles, including Guardians and Angels: Parents and Children in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Faber, 1978), The Paradox of Gissing (Harper Collins,1986), What the Dickens: A Guide to Martin Chuzzlewit and Hard Times (BBC Education, 1994), and ‘Gissing and Prostitution’ in George Gissing and the Woman Question (Routledge, 2013).
Courses
People have always experienced love but literary depictions have changed dramatically. This course will explore classic love stories from Shakespeare to the present. Authors include Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Gabriel García Márquez.