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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?
Madness, hilarity, doubt and devotion are just some of the many aspects of life explored in the huge wealth of Victorian fiction.
This course explores the works, life, and contexts of one of English literature's greatest authors.
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?
John Keats was contentious in his own lifetime: hailed as bringing strength to a 'new school' of poetry, but also condemned for writing nothing more than 'drivelling idiocy'. Explore the life, letters, and poetry of this great Romantic poet.
Some of the great writers of the Victorian period were women. Find out how they portrayed women's issues and lives in such compelling 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?
2025 is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen. To celebrate, we will spend a week exploring one of the best and most-loved novels in English Literature, 'Pride and Prejudice' (1813).