Series of lectures from module on the Romantic novel: examines Castle Rackrent in the context of literary history; narrative voice in Castle Rackrent; Mansfield Park and Englishness; Mansfield Park, Marxism and post-colonialism; Walter Scott and the historical novel; gender and genre in Scott's Waverley; realism, the Gothic and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; the politics of Gothic and the afterlives of Frankenstein; the critical reception of Hogg's Justified Sinner; the uncanny in the Justified Sinner; A powerpoint on the British novel in a state of transition during the Romantic period.