Proposal for Research: MA in English Literature by Research

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Proposal for Research: MA in English Literature by Research

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I am interested in the general area of ….
and I propose to consider in depth ….
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Methodology

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Critical Approaches
As the outline above suggests, the dissertation will involve …[100 –200 words].


Resources
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o The University Library has substantial holdings in ….
o Access to the British Library, the British Newspaper Library, Bodleian Library and the Open University Library in Milton Keynes
o … in my supervisor’s private library
o Inter Library Loans providing access to unpublished MA, Mphil and PhD theses
o University journal subscriptions to JSTOR, EBSCO Academic Search Elite, and the online Dictionary of National Biography
o I hope it will be possible to receive some instruction and advice from scholars associated with the English Department and the School of Humanities: Honorary Research Fellows
o ….



Bibliography
I expect to make use of a broad range of materials, of which the following is indicative:

Primary Materials
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Charles Dickens’ Uncollected Writings from Household Words, 1850-59. Ed. Harry Stone. 2 vols. Bloomington & Indiana University Press, 1968.
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens. Ed. By Paul Schlicke. [1854] Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Household Words, ed. By Charles Dickens. 19 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1850-59.
North and South by E. Gaskell. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855
Reprints of the Catalogue of the Libraries of Charles Dickens and W.M. Thackeray &c. London: Piccadilly Fountain Press, 1935.
The Letters of Charles Dickens, 1833-1870. Ed. Mary Dickens and Georgina Hogarth. 2 vols. London: Chapman & Hall, 1882.
The Letters of Charles Dickens. ‘The Pilgrim Edition.’ General Eds Madeline House, Graham Storey & Kathleen Tillotson. 12 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002.
The Life of Charles Dickens. By John Forster. [3 vols. 1872-74] Ed. J. W. T. Ley. London: Cecil Palmer, 1928.
The Speeches of Charles Dickens. Ed. K. J. Fielding. [1960] New York: Harvester, 1988.

Secondary materials (for example)
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Journals: The Dickensian
Dickens Quarterly
Dickens Studies Annual

Ackroyd, Peter, Dickens. London: Guild Publishing, 1990.
Al-Ani, Tariq, ‘Charles Dickens’s Weekly Periodicals: Their Establishment, Conduct and Development,’ unpublished MA disstertation, University of Leicester, 1971.
Coles, Nicholas. ‘The Politics of Hard Times: Dickens the Novelist versus Dickens the Reformer.’ Dickens Studies Annual 15 (1986) 145-79.
Collins, P. A. W., ed. Dickens. The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1972.
Drew, John, Dickens the Journalist (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003)
Fielding, K. J., —— and Anne Smith. ‘Hard Times and the Factory Controversy: Dickens vs. Harriet Martineau.’ Nineteeth-Century Fiction 24 (1970) 404-27.
Johnson, Edgar. Charles Dickens, His Tragedy and Triumph. 2 vols. Hamish Hamilton/Boston: Little, Brown, 1952.
Simpson, Margaret, The Companion to Hard Times (Sussex: Helm Information, 1997)
Materials relating to Harriet Martineau
Humpherys, Anne. ‘Louisa Gradgrind’s Secret: Marriage and Divorce in Hard Times.’ Dickens Studies Annual 25 (1996) 177-95.
and numerous other articles and essays representative of different critical approaches and lines of interpretation
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Admissions Tutor / Research Supervisor


Date: 26/03/2012