@heathercolleyauthor: *part 3!* As an English Literature PhD student, I’m always trying to demystify literature online: I think that a university humanities curriculum can sometimes be seen as out of reach, or esoteric. I share a lot of stuff to help break out of the academic ivory tower and spread the joys of literature to anyone and everyone. To that end, here’s a short list of the novels that you’d see on most English Literature students’ first-year syllabi. Hint: many of them read the densest (hi Middlemarch) over summer, before term begins. Also, I believe that context is genuinely king when it comes to literary study, so here’s some of the key secondary and background criticism, terminology, further reading, and artworks that might be useful for anyone interested in Victorian Literature. #oxforduni #personalcurriculum #oxforduniversity #englishliterature #oxforduniversity

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