A second short course in which we look closely at some wonderful poetry by Irish poets Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon. With Dr Mariah Whelan, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Session 1 of 2. Live online.

Lecture 4 of 5 on George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency. Live online with Lisa Mullen, University of Cambridge.

Lecture 5 of 5 on Iris Murdoch and Love with Miles Leeson. The Philosopher's Pupil (1983).

Virginia Woolf Season IV: Woolf and Freedom. Lecture 9. Freedom of The Waves (1931), with Angela Harris.

A second short course in which we look closely at some wonderful poetry by Irish poets Eavan Boland and Paul Muldoon. With Dr Mariah Whelan, Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Session 2 of 2. Live online.

Lecture 5 of 5 on George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency. Live online with Lisa Mullen, University of Cambridge.

Lecture 4 of 6. Katherine Mansfield: Art and Life, with Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison.

Lecture 1 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865). Friday group.

Lecture 1 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (1865). Sunday group.

Lecture 5 of 6. Katherine Mansfield: Art and Life, with Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison.

Lecture 2 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898). Friday group.

Lecture 2 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Elizabeth von Arnim, Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898). Sunday group.

Lecture 6 of 6. Katherine Mansfield: Art and Life, with Gerri Kimber and Claire Davison.

Lecture 3 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911). Friday group.

Lecture 3 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (1911). Sunday group.

Lecture 4 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Katherine Mansfield, ‘The Garden Party’ (1922) and other stories. Friday group.

Lecture 4 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Katherine Mansfield ‘The Garden Party’ (1922) and other stories. Sunday group.

Lecture 5 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens (1919). Friday group.

Virginia Woolf Season IV: Woolf and Freedom. ‘The Essence of Freedom’ in Three Guineas (1938) with Claire Davison.

Lecture 5 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens (1919). Sunday group.

Lecture 6 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. HD, Sea Garden poems (1916) and T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Friday group.

Lecture 6 of 6 on Literary Gardens with Karina Jakubowicz. HD, Sea Garden poems (1916) and T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). Sunday group.

At Literature Cambridge, we want to do something to help the people suffering in Gaza, and to support those working for peace. All proceeds from this lecture will be shared between three charities:

• Oxfam Gaza
• Standing Together (Palestinian and Israeli Peace Campaign)
• Gatwick Detainees Support Group (UK charity helping refugees)

Trudi Tate will lecture on Women in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927).

There is a second charity lecture by Karina Jakubowicz on E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) on 30 June 2024.

Repeated by popular demand.

Close Reading Irish Poetry I. Session 1 of 2. We study 5 great Irish poets through close reading. With poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.

At Literature Cambridge, we want to do something to help the people suffering in Gaza, and to support those working for peace. All proceeds from this lecture will be shared between three charities:

• Oxfam Gaza
• Standing Together (Palestinian and Israeli Peace Campaign)
• Gatwick Detainees Support Group (UK charity helping refugees)

Karina Jakubowicz will lecture on E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924).

There is another charity lecture on 22 June: Trudi Tate will lecture on Women in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927).

Repeated by popular demand.

Close Reading Irish Poetry I. Session 2 of 2. We study 5 great Irish poets through close reading. With poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.

We will run the Woolf Summer Course twice in July 2024 - once live online, and again as an in-person course in Cambridge. Our theme is Woolf and Childhood.

The live online course has 5 days of lectures, seminar, supervisions, talks and more, 8-12 July 2024.

Day 1.

We will run the Woolf Summer Course twice in July 2024 - once live online, and again as an in-person course in Cambridge. Our theme is Woolf and Childhood.

The live online course has 5 days of lectures, seminar, supervisions, talks and more, Monday 8 July to - Friday 12 July 2024.

Day 2.

We will run the Woolf Summer Course twice in July 2024 - once live online, and again as an in-person course in Cambridge. Our theme is Woolf and Childhood.

The live online course has 5 days of lectures, seminar, supervisions, talks and more, 8-12 July 2024.

Day 3.

We will run the Woolf Summer Course twice in July 2024 - once live online, and again as an in-person course in Cambridge. Our theme is Woolf and Childhood.

The live online course has 5 days of lectures, seminar, supervisions, talks and more, 8-12 July 2024.

Day 4.

We will run the Woolf Summer Course twice in July 2024 - once live online, and again as an in-person course in Cambridge. Our theme is Woolf and Childhood.

The live online course has 5 days of lectures, seminar, supervisions, talks and more, 8-12 July 2024.

Day 5.

The Poetry of Mary Oliver. Session 1 of 2. We study the poetry of Mary Oliver through close reading. Live online with Mariah Whelan.

The Poetry of Mary Oliver. Session 2 of 2. We study the poetry of Mary Oliver through close reading. Live online with Mariah Whelan.

Live online lecture and seminar with Clare Walker Gore on Charlotte Bronte’s great novel, Jane Eyre (1847). This lecture was first given in Clare’s course on Victorian Women.

Women and Power in twentieth-century fiction. We study four great writers of the mid-twentieth century: Muriel Spark, Barbara Comyns, Patricia Highsmith, and Brigid Brophy.

Lecture 1 of 4 with Miles Leeson

Brigid Brophy, The Snow Ball
Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures, one per month. Lecture 1 of 10. Karina Jakubowicz on the Politics of Conquest in The Voyage Out (1915).

Lecture 1 of 6 on London in Literature with Angela Harris. Fanny Burney, Evelina (1778)

Six live online sessions, fortnightly, from 18 Sept. to 27 Nov. 2024.

Women and Power in twentieth-century fiction. We study four great writers of the mid-twentieth century: Muriel Spark, Barbara Comyns, Patricia Highsmith, and Brigid Brophy.

Lecture 2 of 4 with Miles Leeson

Brigid Brophy, The Snow Ball
Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Trudi Tate will lecture on Mrs Dalloway at the University of Cambridge Alumni Festival. Details to follow later.

Lecture 2 of 6 on London in Literature with Angela Harris. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)

Six sessions, fortnightly, from 18 Sept. to 27 Nov. 2024.

New course on The Contemporary Novel with Joseph Steinberg. Lecture 1 of 6: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006).

Women and Power in twentieth-century fiction. We study four great writers of the mid-twentieth century: Muriel Spark, Barbara Comyns, Patricia Highsmith, and Brigid Brophy.

Lecture 3 of 4 with Miles Leeson

Brigid Brophy, The Snow Ball
Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures, one per month. Lecture 2. Alison Hennegan on Flush (1933).

Lecture 3 of 6 on London in Literature with Angela Harris. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891).

Six live online sessions, fortnightly, from 18 Sept. to 27 Nov. 2024.

New course on The Contemporary Novel with Joseph Steinberg. Lecture 2 of 6: Eleanor Catton, The Rehearsal (2008)

Poetry and the Environment: William Wordsworth. Session 1 of 2. We study the poetry of Wordsworth through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.

Women and Power in twentieth-century fiction. We study four great writers of the mid-twentieth century: Muriel Spark, Barbara Comyns, Patricia Highsmith, and Brigid Brophy.

Lecture 4 of 4 with Miles Leeson

Brigid Brophy, The Snow Ball
Barbara Comyns, The Vet's Daughter
Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr Ripley
Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Poetry and the Environment: William Wordsworth. Session 2 of 2. We study the poetry of Wordsworth through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan.

Lecture 4 of 6 on London in Literature with Angela Harris. Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent (1907).

New course on The Contemporary Novel with Joseph Steinberg. Lecture 3 of 6: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (2009)

Lecture 5 of 6 on London in Literature with Angela Harris. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (1925).

New course on The Contemporary Novel with Joseph Steinberg. Lecture 4 of 6: Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table (2011). 

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures, one per month. Lecture 3. Mark Hussey on Politics in Mrs Dalloway (1925).

Poetry today. Session 1 of 2. We study some contemporary poetry through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan. Details tbc.

Lecture 6 of 6 on London in Literature with Angela Harris. Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1948).

New course on The Contemporary Novel with Joseph Steinberg. Lecture 5 of 6: Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer (2015).

Poetry today. Session 2 of 2. We study some contemporary poetry through close reading. Live online sessions with poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan. Details tbc.

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 4. Ellie Mitchell on Virginia Woolf’s war diary.

New course on The Contemporary Novel with Joseph Steinberg. Lecture 6 of 6: Gwendolyn Riley, My Phantoms (2021).

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 5. Danell Jones on A Room of One’s Own.

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker.

Lecture 1 of 7. Shakespeare, Othello.

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker.

Lecture 2 of 7. Euripides, Helen.

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker.

Lecture 3 of 7. Euripides, Orestes.

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker.

Lecture 4 of 7. Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 6. Natasha Periyan, Education in The Years (1937).

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker.

Lecture 5 of 7. Sophocles, Philoctetes.

Lecture 1 of 6 on the Bloomsbury Group: Art and Politics with Karina Jakubowicz.

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker.

Lecture 6 of 7. Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

Lecture 2 of 6 on The Bloomsbury Group: Art and Politics with Karina Jakubowicz.

Passion and Violence in Greek and Shakespearean Tragedy with Fred Parker and Jan Parker. Lecture 7 of 7. Shakespeare, King Lear.

Lecture 3 of 6 on The Bloomsbury Group: Art and Politics with Karina Jakubowicz.

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 7.

Lecture 4 of 6 on The Bloomsbury Group: Art and Politics with Karina Jakubowicz.

Lecture 1 of 5 on Iris Murdoch and Art with Miles Leeson. We study five great novels by Murdoch:

The Bell (1958)
An Unofficial Rose (1962)
The Nice and the Good (1968)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
The Green Knight (1993)

Lecture 5 of 6 on The Bloomsbury Group: Art and Politics with Karina Jakubowicz.

Oscar Wilde: Man of Many Parts. Lecture 1 of 4. Live online course with Alison Hennegan, University of Cambridge.

Lecture 6 of 6 on The Bloomsbury Group: Art and Politics with Karina Jakubowicz.

Lecture 2 of 5 on Iris Murdoch and Art with Miles Leeson. We study five great novels by Murdoch:

The Bell (1958)
An Unofficial Rose (1962)
The Nice and the Good (1968)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
The Green Knight (1993)

Oscar Wilde: Man of Many Parts. Lecture 2 of 4. Live online course with Alison Hennegan, University of Cambridge.

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 8. Varsha Panjwani on The Politics of Orlando (1928).

Lecture 3 of 5 on Iris Murdoch and Art with Miles Leeson. We study five great novels by Murdoch:

The Bell (1958)
An Unofficial Rose (1962)
The Nice and the Good (1968)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
The Green Knight (1993)

Oscar Wilde: Man of Many Parts. Lecture 3 of 4. Live online course with Alison Hennegan, University of Cambridge.

Lecture 4 of 5 on Iris Murdoch and Art with Miles Leeson. We study five great novels by Murdoch:

The Bell (1958)
An Unofficial Rose (1962)
The Nice and the Good (1968)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
The Green Knight (1993)

Oscar Wilde: Man of Many Parts. Lecture 4 of 4. Live online course with Alison Hennegan, University of Cambridge.

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 9. Angela Harris, The Politics of Jacob’s Room (1922).

Lecture 5 of 5 on Iris Murdoch and Art with Miles Leeson. We study five great novels by Murdoch:

The Bell (1958)
An Unofficial Rose (1962)
The Nice and the Good (1968)
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974)
The Green Knight (1993)

Woolf and Politics: live online season of lectures and seminars, one per month. Lecture 10.

Doris Lessing Course: Women and Destiny. 1. The Grass is Singing (1950). Lecture 1 of 4 fortnightly sessions, live online with Anne-Laure Brevet.

https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/lessing

Doris Lessing Course: Women and Destiny. 2. Martha Quest (1952). Lecture 2 of 4 fortnightly sessions, live online with Anne-Laure Brevet.

Doris Lessing Course: Women and Destiny. 3. The Golden Notebook (1962). Lecture 3 of 4 fortnightly sessions, live online with Anne-Laure Brevet.

Doris Lessing Course: Women and Destiny. 4. The Summer Before Dark (1973). Lecture 4 of 4 fortnightly sessions, live online with Anne-Laure Brevet.

Elizabeth von Arnim course: Men, Women, and Dogs with Isobel Maddison and Juliane Römhild. Lecture 1 of 4: The Caravaners (1909).

Elizabeth von Arnim course: Men, Women, and Dogs with Isobel Maddison and Juliane Römhild. Lecture 2 of 4:

Vera (1921).

Elizabeth von Arnim course: Men, Women, and Dogs with Isobel Maddison and Juliane Römhild. Lecture 3 of 4:

All the Dogs of my Life (1937).

Elizabeth von Arnim course: Men, Women, and Dogs with Isobel Maddison and Juliane Römhild. Lecture 4 of 4: Mr Skeffington (1940).