Student Essays

These are some of the excuses for essays I handed in during a 3yr BA Hons degree in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. They're here for immersive background reading, not for people just to rip off. So there!

It's not that I care particularly, but your university would...

> Year 3 English Essays

Brief summary: Literary theory (Turn of the Screw and more recent texts), science-fiction and the gothic (Frankenstein, Neuromancer, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?), nineteenth century literature (Confessions of an English Opium Eater) and twentienth century literature (Heart of Darkness). 6 essays.

> Year 2 English Essays

Seventeenth century & Renaissance writing (Hero and Leander), eighteenth century and Restoration writing (The Country Wife, The Rover), Literary theory (deconstruction, Winnie The Pooh), detective & crime fiction (Sherlock Holmes, The Big Sleep, Beneath The Blonde, Cabal), "Women, writing and religion in the Middle Ages". 7 essays.

> Year 1 English Essays

Introductory course: Dr Faustus, Home At Grasmere, The Rape Of The Lock & To The Lighthouse. Genre course: The Literature of the Uncanny, Shakespeare Sonnets. Contemporary writing: Elementals, The Beach. 8 early essays.

> American Studies Essays

History: Anti-slavery abolitionism and "The New Deal". Literature: Mary Rowlanson captivity narrative and O Pioneers! 4 very mediocre essays.


If you have time to kill and would like to read some of the other things I wrote whilst at university, my writing class submissions are over in the notebook/ section.