Module code: ESH5007
Credits: 15.0
Semester: SEM2
Contact: Dr Cornelia Cook
London was not only where Dickens lived, but a never-failing resource for his restless imagination. Over the thirty years of his career he transformed the novel into a cultural vessel capable simultaneously of entertaining and raising consciousness in a wide, popular readership that had a central place within an unprecedentedly modern, urban society. Dickens¿s development of multiplot narrative was a response to the modern city¿s irreducible complexity. This module will think about the relationship between Dickens¿ writing and other forms ¿ TV version, film adaptation, audiobook ¿ that have taken on his multi-plot imagination and rendered it for other media. Three of his most extraordinary novels ¿ Bleak House, Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend will be showcased, with enough time planned into the schedule, to explore these rich, complex works, in conjunction with a series of trips and visits to places in London, and its orbit, that mean something significant within the Dickensian cityscape
Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 60.0% Coursework, 40.0% Practical
Level: 5
