Some Hypothetical PhDs in Victorian Literature

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In which I talk about some PhDs in Victorian literature that I will never do . . .
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The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens: / 229432.the_pickwick_pa...
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens: / 325085.nicholas_nickleby
Martin Chuzzlewit, Charles Dickens: / 1990.martin_chuzzlewit
Dombey and Son, Charles Dickens: / 50827.dombey_and_son
Bleak House, Charles Dickens: / 31242.bleak_house
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens: / 31250.little_dorrit
Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens: / 31244.our_mutual_friend
Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth Century Novel, Clare Walker Gore: / plotting-disability-in...
Olive, Dinah Mulock Craik: / 898983.olive
Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell: / 54620.mary_barton
My Lady Ludlow, Elizabeth Gaskell: / 1227202.my_lady_ludlow
Drama in Muslin, George Moore: / 361275.a_drama_in_muslin
John Halifax, Gentleman, Dinah Mulock Craik: / 1892249.john_halifax_g...
The Odd Women, George Gissing: / 675037.the_odd_women
A Struggle for Fame, Charlotte Riddell: / a-struggle-for-fame
Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900, Florence Dixie: / gloriana
The Beth Book, Sarah Grand: / 1019669.the_beth_book
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley: / frankenstein
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson: / dr-jekyll-and-mr-hyde
Hard Times, Charles Dickens: / 5344.hard_times
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell: / 156538.north_and_south
The Time Machine, H.G. Wells: / 2493.the_time_machine
The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells: / the-island-of-doctor-m...
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[@lorrainetaylor9852]

This was lots of fun. My PhD fantasy topic is around religion in the Victorian era, specifically the position of women in a breakaway denomination from the Anglican Church ( which is the origin of the church I currently attend) I think about how to weave Victorian literature into what would likely be more a history project than English literature. Nice to dream but will never happen. 😊

[@clarepotter7584]

Hypothetical PHDs are such a great idea. I had such an interesting and fun time reading 'Cambrian Pictures' by Ann of Swansea (Kemble). She is so fascinating, in a compare and contrast with Miss Austen (my favourite author), she might been seen as lacking in the quality of the writing but being a Kemble you can really see the influence of stagecraft and there's an interesting focus on a working class perspective (a scary demonic creation to teach a upper class man a lesson, devised by a working class man).

[@gg_23452]

This is really fun video now I'm gonna think about my hypotheical phds too 😆 Also for the serialization topic, you can also look at modern books like web novels and maybe make a comparison 🤔

[@LedgerAndLace]

I ♥your hypothetical PhDs! I have some of my own, but the English classes I took at college were so dull and serious that it sucked the joy out of reading. So I don't think I'll ever go back. My brother told me that I sounded like a graduate student in the middle of her PhD because of all the research I've been doing for my novel. Ha!

[@Lokster71]

Interesting video. I was going to do my thesis at University on 'The Use of Fiction as a Historical Source with particular reference to the Preston Cotton Strike of 1853-1854'. I've just signed up to do a History MA with the Open University 32 years after I graduated so I'm going to have to give this some proper thought. I am fascinated by how popular perceptions of history are influenced by fiction more than academic history and so are often incomplete or inaccurate. Not sure where to take that though.

[@onourpath]

Conveniently, you're already an author, so just write a book about it! Literary criticism was not a huge section of my store, but its fans are legion. I don't know what it's like in the UK, but are there university presses that specialize in lit crit? If you can get some professors to use it in their lit classes as required reading, you're golden. 💚 Lit crit is surprisingly appealing; write some interesting bit about my favorite author's life, and I'm sold!

[@jamesduggan7200]

While planning my college career in the 1970s the first idea came to mind was 'Women in Shakespeare', which now seems far too vague. Well, believe it or not men writing about women sometimes pursue disfavored gender perspectives so it was fortuitous to accept a slight detour toward 'Suicide in Shakespeare'. However, before I could graduate with a degree in English I graduated with a degree in History and finished my Master's degree while at Law School. In short, no topic in English Lit. is available to me now, but that said I think today I might write about 'Territorial Foundations of the Nature of Evil in the Novels of Stephen King.'

[@acratone8300]

I was surprised about the female characters in Edwin Drood. For instance Helena Landless sister to Neville Landless. Without Helena to guide, Neville would early on have probably been arrested for assault or other charges even. Very early on.