Memory and Time
Description
Write an essay of 4000 words on the questions below. You should discuss at least two texts from the course in depth.
Take the opportunity afforded by the questions to explore your own interests, and read around your subject accordingly. Your essay should be critically and historically informed, and demonstrate the confident articulation of your own ideas. Find the appropriate balance between your own critical voice and the opinions of other critics/historians/theorists. We expect you to write well-structured, sharply argued essays in polished prose.
‘Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity. This, however, did not disturb me so much as the vast expansion of time’. (Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater)
Discuss the relationship between space and time in nineteenth-century literature
The main texts for this essay are:
Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) [preferably Oxford World’s Classics edition]
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Secondary readings that can help propel the essay are:
Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 (Harvard UP, 1983)
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