[Free] Writing The West: Literature &Amp; Place

Writers in the South West – Free Course

Added on September 5, 2023 Teaching & Academics 2 min read

What you’ll learn

Learners will understand the importance of places and landscapes in the South West to some major English poets and novelists and how those writers are remembered and valued today.

Requirements

You dont require any additional textbooks to study. Everything you need to follow the course is provided for you on screen as you progress from step to step. For those interested in finding out more, we provide a list of further reading and online resources at the end of each weeks package of learning.

Description

This free online course offers learners the opportunity to explore the work of four writers or groups of writers from the Romantic & Victorian era with strong links to Bristol and the South West. The course covers Bristols Romantic poets (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Lovell, Robert Southey), Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, and Thomas Hardy, and addresses the following two overarching questions:

What has been the importance of place to writers in the South West?
What is the importance of writers to places in the South West today?

The course invites learners to consider how the featured writers were inspired by the landscapes and cityscapes of Bristol, Bath, and the West of England and how they engaged in a local or regional context with social and political issues of national importance. Learners will also consider how these same writers are remembered today and how they contribute to the cultural economy of the region; here in particular there will be scope for learners to share their own knowledge and experiences in an interactive learning environment.

Author(s): Matthew Wood, Robin Jarvis, Gillian Ballinger, Marie Mulvey-Roberts