English BA

At Level 1, you are introduced to the study of English through modules that cover various periods and genres, literary locations and approaches to university-level research and writing skills.

At Level 2, you will study some period-based modules such as Romanticism and Revolution, Shakespeare, the Nineteenth Century Novel, and Modernism. Critical theoretical perspectives are introduced in modules such as Postcolonial Writing and the Women’s Movement.

At Level 3, you can choose from a wide range of modules that are research-led by experts in the field, including: Writing IndiaMoving Modernisms, Writing Ireland, Nineteenth Century Literature and Cultureand Post-Millennial Fiction, 2000 to the Present. You will also complete a dissertation on a research topic of your choice.

The BA consists of both compulsory and optional modules, a typical selection can be found below. Modules can vary from year to year, but these offer a good idea of what we teach.

Level 1

Compulsory

Texts, Contexts, Intertexts

Learning London

Reading Resilience

Level 2

Optional

Nineteenth-Century Novel

Postcolonial Writing

Romanticism and Revolution

Genre Fiction

Shakespeare: Text and Performance

The Women's Movement and 20th Century Writing

Modernism

Contemporary British Fiction

Level 3

Compulsory

Project

Optional

A Sinking Island? British Poetry’s Response to Modernism and Postmodernism

Post War and Late Twentieth Century Literature 1945 – 2001

The Long Novel

Pyschogeography

Postcolonial Perspectives

Jane Austen

Postmillennial Fictions

The Creative Industries

Victorian Literature and Culture

Violence

Special Author

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