MA Nineteenth Century Studies
To help you feel prepared for your postgraduate studies, we’ve gathered together a range of course related activities including suggested reading, useful websites and some great things to do right now.
Suggested reading
You will be given more information about which textbooks to read and introduced to the University Library, as well as the many ebooks and journals we have for you to access, when you begin your studies.
In the meantime, you may want to begin exploring some of the items below:
Useful websites
Depending on your areas of interest, you might want to visit the following websites:
- The Victorian Web features introductory articles on key aspects of Victorian culture and society.
- Lee Jackson’s The Dictionary of Victorian London features lots of fascinating nineteenth-century sources.
- The Internet Archive features thousands of digitised books and periodicals from the nineteenth century. See what you can unearth!
- The British Newspaper Archive (subscription required) features millions of pages of nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines — it’s a great tool for finding new research topics.
- Dr Andrew McInnes is currently leading a project on‘The Romantic Ridiculous’ — check out his project blog to learn about his work-in-progress and get ready for our Romantic Movements module.
- Dr Bob Nicholson’s twitter feeds (@DigiVictorian and @VictorianHumour) feature thousands of curious Victorian discoveries, some of which we’ll be exploring in Entertaining the Victorians.
Things to do now
To help you prepare for your studies, you may find it useful to start reading Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities — we’ll be using in the core skills module during semester one.
Meet your programme lead and course specialists:
Dr Bob Nicholson (MA Programme Leader)
Reader in History and Digital Humanities, Dr Bob Nicholson works on the history of nineteenth-century popular culture and leads the Entertaining the Victorians module in semester two.
Dr Laura Eastlake
Dr Laura Eastlake is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature. Her interests include Victorian masculinity, classical reception, and gothic fiction. She leads the Victorian Decades module in semester two.
Dr Andrew McInnes
Reader in Romanticisms, Dr Andrew McInnes is currently leading an AHRC-funded project exploring the ‘Romantic Ridiculous.’ He leads the Romantic Movements module in semester one.