Tutor information
Sara Zadrozny
Sara Zadrozny teaches on the weekly classes for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and for the Oxford Experience. Her research interests include the Gothic and representations of female ageing in Victorian Literature, especially in the works of Charles Dickens.
Courses
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature? This course investigates the inspiration for their remarkable fiction and memorable protagonists.
Victorian literary realism aimed to replicate ‘lived experience’. We examine this ambition in three classic realism novels – Charlotte Bronte’s 'Jane Eyre' (1847), Elizabeth Gaskell’s 'Cranford' (1853) and Charles Dickens’s 'Bleak House' (1852-53).
The Victorian author Thomas Hardy was sensitive to the patterns of the past and to the tragic inevitabilities of human nature. By studying his poetry and prose, this course examines Hardy’s philosophy and belief in the roles of men and women.
The figure of the Victorian detective remain hugely popular in literature and media. This course will exam why, looking at the rationality, reliability and remoteness of this intriguing character by examining three classic Victorian detective novels.