Cardiff University (CF) • English Literature

Lecture notes of the two lectures of the second week of the African American Literature module from Cardiff University, about Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. Detailed, clear and understandable notes written in bullet point format.

Recieved a first for this This essay explores whether children’s fiction in the twentieth century can remain didactic despite its transgressive protagonists, and secondly how children’s fiction is legitimised to glorify morally subversive children.

I received a first for this essay. Much literature of the Indian Sub-continent uses children as significant figures in their fiction to best personify the time period that held the partition of 1947, and this essay explores their poignancy.

I received a 2:1 for this essay. Focusing on corruption, this essay asserts the conviction that it was the Southern tradition that allowed people’s morality to decline and explores the different motives and forms of corruption in two American texts

I received a 2:1 classification for this essay. This essay explores how place removes itself from the sole utility of setting and begins to interact with and create individual consciousness and why Austen does this.

I received a first classification for this essay. This essay explores how although Crime Fiction explores the good/bad binaries it occasionally places the detective as the transgressor and how and why this is legitimized.