BA English Literature Q300

University of Reading

Bachelor's degree

In Reading

£ 9,250 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Reading

Full Time: 3 Years
This degree allows you to explore the great variety of literature in English from across the globe within a programme that covers traditional genres and literary periods.
Our English Literature degree will enable you to examine in greater detail authors and genres that you already know (from tragedy to Gothic, from Shakespeare and Dickens to Plath and Beckett). But it will also introduce you to aspects of literary studies that you may not know so well, from children’s literature to publishing studies and the history of the book. Our academics have published research on everything from medieval poetry to contemporary Caribbean and American fiction, and they will help you to develop your own literary enthusiasms.
Our first year core modules ensure that all of our students have the advanced skills in literary analysis necessary for undergraduate work. We explore the different ways that literary texts respond to their cultural context (‘Genre and Context’); we trace the development of poetry in English over time and across the globe (‘Poetry in English’); we examine how literary texts accrue new meanings in the process of interpretation (‘Research and Criticism’). You can take additional modules in other subjects in your first year, but you also have the option to study creative writing; non-fiction persuasive writing, or twentieth-century American literature. In the second year, you choose modules that range from Renaissance lyric poetry to contemporary fiction. In the third year, your module choices are more diverse and specialised: you can do archive work on ‘Studying Manuscripts’, or look at the politics of literature in ‘Writing Global Justice’. Everyone in our department, from new lecturers to professors, teaches at every level of the degree: this gives you the benefit of our expertise and makes you part of the conversation about the ways that English Studies is developing. Creative writing modules are available...

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Reading (Berkshire)
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Whiteknights, RG6 6AH

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On request

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Subjects

  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English
  • Creative Writing
  • Shakespeare
  • Politics
  • American Literature
  • Global

Course programme

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
Year 1 Core modules include:
  • Genre and Context
  • Poetry in English
  • Research and Criticism
Optional modules include:
  • Introduction to Creative Writing
  • Persuasive Writing
  • Twentieth-Century American Literature

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 2 Optional modules include:
  • Introduction to Old English
  • Lyric Voices
  • Renaissance Texts and Cultures
  • Chaucer and Medieval Narrative
  • Early Modern Theatre Practice
  • Restoration to Revolution
  • The Romantic Period
  • Modernism in Poetry and Fiction
  • Critical Issues
  • Victorian Literature
  • Contemporary Fiction
  • Writing America
  • Writing and Revising
  • Shakespeare
  • Writing Genre, Identity
  • Writing, Genre and the Market
  • The Business of Books
Placement Modules include:
  • Communications at Work
  • Literature, Language and Media
  • Literature, Language and Education

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Year 3 Core module:
  • Dissertation
Choose your modules from a list of approximately 40 specialist topics, including:
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • American Poetry: Bishop to Dove
  • Black British Fiction
  • Colonial Explorations
  • Contemporary American Fiction
  • Children’s Literature
  • Class Matters
  • ‘Eyes on the Prize’: Literature of the US Civil Rights Movement
  • Classical and Renaissance Tragedy
  • Decadence and Degeneration
  • Dickens
  • Eighteenth-Century Novel
  • Fiction and Ethnicity in post-war Britain and America
  • Editing the Renaissance
  • Family Romances
  • Holocaust Fiction
  • City of Death and Desire: Henry James and Venice
  • Holocaust Testimony
  • Irish Poetry
  • James Joyce
  • Literature and the Railway
  • Margaret Atwood
  • Modern and Contemporary British Poetry
  • Modern Scottish Fiction
  • Nineteenth-Century American Fiction
  • Nigerian Prose Literature: From Achebe to Adichie
  • Packaging Literature
  • Psychoanalysis and Text
  • Restoration Literary Culture
  • Samuel Beckett
  • Science in Culture
  • The Writer’s Workshop: Studying Manuscripts
  • Victorian & Edwardian Children’s Fantasy
  • Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury
  • Writing Global Justice
  • Writing Women: Nineteenth-Century Poetry
  • American Graphic Novel
  • The African-American Short Story
  • Digital Text: Literature and the New Technologies
  • John Milton
  • Modern American Drama
  • Modernism and Politics
  • Shakespeare and Gender
  • Utopia
  • Victorian Literature and Medicine

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

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