Cardiff University (CF)

Notes on Arthur Conan Doyle's, A Study in Scarlet. Thorough amount of quotes looking at Holmes and his methods as a detective and a character.

Notes looking at sensational 19th century crime fiction written by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. Explores the role of the detective in their novels and how this is juxtaposed with the hapless police of the time.

Notes looking at female writers of the 19th Century. Focus on: - Bronte's Professor - Jane Eyre Exploration of the themes of feminism, escape, rebellion, patriarchy.

Focusses on the following key areas for consideration: - The literary narrator role - The implied author - The cinematic narrator The challenges of translating narratives to cinema and the limitations of film as a medium.

Notes on Edgar Allan Poe's novel The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Explores the character Dupin and how he is superior in his methods compared to the hapless police. Details how Dupin enjoys the game of solving mysteries.

Notes on the Professor and how Bronte engages with colonialism. Looks at how the novel explores the intersection between nation, sexuality and race.

Notes detailing how the novel Shirley can be read contrapuntally especially in relation to the Irish Famine of the 1840s. Focusses on the core themes of migration, food and poverty in the novel.

Notes detailing the themes and format of Charlotte Bronte's Shirley. Includes contextual analysis of the time in terms of Anglo-Irish animosities, class and corporeality, figures of female resistance, migration and resistance.

Summary of Nights at the Circus: - Approach of Angela Carter's writing style - Character summaries - How the novel is written from a Feminist perspective

For Anthony Arblaster democracy is still ‘unfinished business’ . Despite the capitalist victory over the communist Soviet Union in the late twentieth century, the democratic principles that triumphed over that of the communist regimes are far from perfect. In Arblaster’s view, many undemocratic anomalies remain in our current conception of what defines democracy today. Arblaster suggests that in order to overcome these anomalies democracy must be established on a higher level than simply t...