Tutor information
Sara Zadrozny
Sara Zadrozny teaches on the weekly classes for Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and for the Oxford Experience. Her research interests include the Gothic and representations of female ageing in Victorian Literature, especially in the works of Charles Dickens.
Courses
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray are stories that haunt the imagination. This course explores why.
Characterised by hedonism and ennui, fin de siècle literature provides a window into the fears of the 1880s and 1890s. The similarities between the fin de siècle and the present day are examined in this literary course.
The Victorian author Thomas Hardy was sensitive to the patterns of the past and to the tragic inevitabilities of human nature. By studying his poetry and prose, this course examines Hardy’s philosophy and belief in the roles of men and women.
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature? This course investigates the inspiration for their remarkable fiction and memorable protagonists.