A playlist bringing together all videos on Oliver Twist, examining Dickens’s treatment of social reform, poverty, and conformity in Victorian England.
A playlist bringing together all videos on Wuthering Heights, exploring the relationship between Heathcliff and Cathy and the question of whether they may be half-siblings.
An analysis of Oliver Twist examining the tension between social reform and conformity, exploring how Dickens uses the figure of the orphan to critique the Poor Law and Victorian attitudes to poverty and crime.
An analysis of the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights, examining the textual evidence for the theory that they may be half-siblings and what this means for our reading of the novel.