Religion and Arts in Britain 1750 to 1939

 This three-term course explores the linkages between religion and its expression in the arts – painting, architecture, music and literature – from the start of industrialisation to the eve of WWII.  The course will raise questions such as: How did the Pre-Raphaelites express their religious ideas in their art? Did Victorian literature have a religious focus? What impact did the Great War have on the art that emerged from the trenches?

Students will be expected to read several novels, to listen to set pieces of music and to visit both churches and art galleries.

Mondays 7 pm to 9 pm, £49.50 per term

Term 3: 1901-1939

19 April to 26 June excl 3 & 31 May

London field trip to galleries on 26 June (previously scheduled for 12 June)

19 & 26 April

Salisbury & Wiltshire 1900-1939 with John Chandler & Ruth Newman

10 May

Remembering the Fallen: Lutyens, the Somme and the Cenotaph with John Elliott

17 May

The Modern Age: 1901 – 1914 with John Cox
Including selected texts and extracts by Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, T.S.Eliot, E.M.Forster and W. B. Yeats

24 May

The Poetry of World War One with John Cox
Including poems by Vera Brittain, Rupert Brooke, Margaret Postgate Cole, Julian Grenfell, Rudyard Kipling, Wilfred Owen, Jessie Pope, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon and Charles Sorely

7 June

The Brave New World with John Cox
Including The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

14 June

Looking back, Looking forward with John Elliott
Paddy’s Wigwam, Hope Street and Liverpool

26 June

Visit to Tate Gallery & National Portrait Gallery with John Elliott