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An interactive guide to ‘Great Expectations’, including the full text; character studies; Dickens’s life and works; contemporary reviews; new research; interactive tutorials with Thelma Grove and Dr...
An introduction to ‘Great Expectations’, with sequences filmed on location at Dickens’s house and dramatisations of key scenes coupled with commentary and analysis by Thelma Grove and Dr David Parker.
Simon Callow re-enacts the public readings given by Charles Dickens, reading extracts from five of the most popular Dickens novels. The readings aim for an accurate re-creation of Dickens’s style - costume...
An alternative view of Lawrence and his art. Originally funded as a contribution to the Lawrence Centenary Year (1985) the video investigates the specific case of Lawrence but also indicates the wider issues...
Stresses the visual elements and the social historical context of the novel. The theme of ‘improvement’ is illustrated in terms of the then fashionable doctrine of redressing the balance between art and...
Illustrates the close identity between the social purpose of Alan Sillitoe’s proletarian novels and their actual location in the city of Nottingham.
David Lodge discusses the aims and intentions behind the writing of his fiction. He describes his experiences with publishers and his work in the field of literary criticism, e.g. ‘The Language of Fiction’.
Describes the literary situation immediately after World War 1 when Edgell Rickword began to contribute to the ‘TLS’, the ‘New Statesman’ and other literary journals. Gives an account of the...
A S Byatt talks about her life and work.
Brigid Brophy talks about her life and work.
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