- Introduction
- Welcome to the course
- An introduction to close reading
- Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’
- Research approaches: literature and history
- Quiz and review
- Reconstructing the literature of the country house
- Welcome to Week 2
- Research approaches: context, composition and reception
- Working with manuscript material
- Quiz and review
- Additional activity
- Politeness and the 18th-century country house
- From coffee houses to country houses: politeness and conversation in the 18th century
- Understanding print culture
- Women, politics and the literature of the country house
- Quiz and review
- Minds and manners: Jane Austen and the country house
- The country house in ‘Pride and Prejudice’
- Quiz and a look forward to next week
- Additional activities
- The malevolent or reclusive owner
- Nameless deeds
- Research Approaches: intertextuality
- Behind closed doors: ‘Great Expectations’ and the reclusive owner
- Quiz and reflections on the week
- Exit through the giftshop: Transformation
- Oscar Wilde and the end of the century
- ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
- Wilde times
- Check your understanding
- Making connections
- Final reflections