Language

About the lecture

In this module, we consider the novel’s interest in language and literature, starting with the title of the novel, but also exploring the novel’s engagement with other literature, and its interest in the meaning of character and identity, and of plot and confession.

About the lecturer

Nick Groom is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, a critically acclaimed author on subjects ranging from the history of the Union Jack to Thomas Chatterton, has edited several books and regularly appears on television, radio and at literary festivals as an authority on English Literature, the ‘Gothic’ and ‘British’ identity.