Tutor information
Octavia Cox
Dr Octavia Cox completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, has taught and lectured at the University of Oxford, the University of Nottingham, and elsewhere, and has published various peer-reviewed chapters and articles. Her first monograph, Alexander Pope in the Romantic Age, is forthcoming. She is currently researching a book provisionally titled Jane Austen and Counter-Genre.
Courses
Madness, hilarity, doubt and devotion are just some of the many aspects of life explored in the huge wealth of Victorian fiction.
Many readers enjoy Austen's novels, but what makes them so special and enduring?
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature?
Many readers enjoy Austen's novels, but what makes them so special and enduring?
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature?
Many readers enjoy Austen's novels, but what makes them so special and enduring?
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature?
Provocative, challenging, thought-provoking - study Eliot's classic Victorian novel Middlemarch (1871-2), "written for grown-up people".
This course places Austen's work in its historical and cultural contexts, and closely analyses the text of the novels in order for students to gain a deeper understanding of the novels' undercurrents and themes as well as of Austen's literary techniques.