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Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby
Live course taught by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson for Spring 2025 High School Early Modern/Victorian Literature
Summary

Join Mrs. Nicholson and Charles Dickens in an exuberant, youthful romp, and rise with young Nicholas to energetic heights of heroism, pathos, and comedy!

Course Description: In addition to cultivating artistic appreciation and a love of reading, this class facilitates the development of critical reasoning, the disciplined use of the imagination, and a strong knowledge of historical and literary context.

Instructor Bio: Eleanor Bourg Nicholson

Special notes

Special Notes: Includes an optional writing component.

Total classes

6

Class dates

Thursdays, January 16 to February 27, 2025. No class Feb. 13.

Starting time

2:30 PM Eastern (1:30 Central, 12:30 Mountain, 11:30 Pacific)

Duration

55 minutes

Prerequisites

Willingness to read. Read Chapters 1-10 before Class 1.

Suggested grade level

9th-12th.

Suggested credit

1​/2-semester Literature or Victorian Literature.

Outline

Week 1: Introduction, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapters 1-10.
Week 2: Nicholas Nickleby, Chapters 11-22.
Week 3: Nicholas Nickleby, Chapters 23-34.
Week 4: Nicholas Nickleby, Chapters 35-45.
Week 5: Nicholas Nickleby, Chapters 46-55.
Week 6: Nicholas Nickleby, Chapters 56-65; Review.

Materials

  • Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby (Penguin, Oxford, or Dover editions recommended; other editions accepted)

Homework

3 hours reading per week, 1 identification quiz per week; concluding thoughts assignment. A literary-critical writing project opportunity is available for extra credit.

Fees

Fee: For all 6 classes: $99 if you register on or before November 15; $119 if you register after Nov. 15. (Registration closes one week before the first day of class. After that date, registrations are not guaranteed. There is a $20 surcharge for late enrollments after the course is closed.)

Course name
Charles Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby
Instructor
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
Semester
Spring 2025
Category
Literature ➤ Early Modern/Victorian Literature
Grade level
High School
Start time
January 16th, 2025 at 2:30 PM ET
Course type
Live
Price
$119
Seats available
25 seats available
Seats remaining
10 seats remaining
Relative due dates
Relative due dates are disabled for this course.

Mrs. Nicholson, our resident Victorian literature instructor, occasionally strays into fiction, including her epistolary novella, The Letters of Magdalen Montague (Kauffmann Publishing, 2011; Chrism Press, 2021), and her Gothic novels, A Bloody Habit (Ignatius Press, 2018) and Brother Wolf (Chrism Press, 2021). A former assistant executive editor for Dappled Things, she is an assistant editor for the Saint Austin Review (StAR), as well as the editor of several Ignatius Critical Editions of the classics and has collaborated with other editors to provide footnotes for numerous other works. Her work has appeared in the National Catholic Register and Touchstone, as well as with First Things and The Catholic Thing. By day, she and her husband, Dr. Sam Nicholson (Logic/Philosophy instructor), homeschool their five children. By night, Mrs. Nicholson reads the Victorians, writes Gothic novels, and cares for small children. Fun facts: Mrs. Nicholson has an extremely low tolerance for scary books and movies. She's still petrified of "The Speckled Band", and won't sleep in a room where the bed is under a vent. Also, one of Mrs. Nicholson's numerous sisters-in-law is middle school writing instructor Mrs. Bonnie Donlon. For more information, visit: eleanorbourgnicholson.com.

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