Course Content
Year 1
- Approaches to Literature I: Writing Modernity
- Approaches to Literature II: Other Worlds
- A World of Literature I: Classics and Cultural Translations
- A World of Literature II: Empire and Aftermaths
Year 2
- Writing Now
- Research Now
Year 3
- You’ll have the opportunity to explore further the areas you’ve developed an interest in over the course of your studies through the diverse range of module choices available to our third-year students. In addition, the subject of your English dissertation is entirely up to you, which means that there is an exciting opportunity for you to shape the trajectory of your final year.
Year 2
- The Shock of the New: Medieval Literature
- The Renaissance
- Inventing Britain, 1700-1830
- Victorians: British Literature, 1832-1901
- Age of Extremes: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Literature
- American Literature: From the First World War to the End of Empire
- An Introduction to Greek and Latin Literatures
- European New Cinema
- French Poetry 1844-1898
- The Literature of Hispanic America
- Medieval Arabic and Persian Global Literature
- Muslim Translations of Britain
- Old Norse Literature
- The World of Beowulf
Year 3
- American Independent Film
- The Body in Modern American Literature and Culture
- Charles Dickens
- Fashion in the 18th Century
- Found in Translation
- From Tennyson to Tolkien: The Middle Ages & Modern Literature from 1843 - 1940
- Green Romanticism: Nature, Ecology, Calamity
- Modernism's Queer Spaces
- Poetry Boot Camp
- Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Romance and Popular Fiction
- Researching the Renaissance
- So Funny it Hurts: Irish Comic Fiction
- Villains of the Romantic Gothic
- The Writer's Notebook: A Prose Fiction Workshop
