Welcome to the second article in my ‘Reading Delights’ series! This time I’m sharing my thoughts on some non-fiction: historian Ruth Goodman’s How To Be A Victorian, Sigmund Freud’s The Uncanny and Professor Stephen Hawking’s Brief Answers To The Big Questions.
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This is a new series of posts I’m starting sharing some of the books I’ve discovered. This series will cover a mixture of fiction and non-fiction and hopefully might introduce you to something new! Do share any of your recommendations in the comments too!
Continue reading “Reading Delights I”
As my chosen research covers texts released at various points throughout the Nineteenth Century, I thought creating a timeline may assist with recognising significant events that occurred alongside the publication of these texts.
As my research is specialising in the presence of male hysteria in Nineteenth-Century literature, I need to conduct my research using language of the period to get the results I need.
With the basic ideas for my dissertation in place and background reading well underway, I seek the opinions of my lecturers before taking my research further.
31st October 2018
As I sit in the library making my way through the reading material I have gathered thus far, I hit the wall. Not literally of course, but I find myself overwhelmed by the enormity of my task.
“[T]he invention of madness as a disease is in fact nothing less than a peculiar disease of our civilization.” (David Cooper’s Introduction to Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault)
Holly Royle 