Has studying at Birmingham introduced you to any new works of literature or changed your perspective on books you'd already read?
My favourite areas of literature include both Victorian literature and Popular literature and culture.
The 19th century is a period marked by industrial growth which gave birth to the society that we live in today. The idea of easy consumption that defines popular literature owes its origin to the Victorian era.
Birmingham has introduced me to a plethora of new authors like Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Amy Levy, and Michael Field under lesbian voices in the 19th century. I have further been taught about how popular fantasy motifs like the “werewolf” might have its origins in medieval texts like Bisclavret by Marie de France.