B.A. English, American and Postcolonial Literature with an Approved Year Abroad (Hons)

The course structure below gives a flavour of the modules that will be available to you and provides details of the content of this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes will require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules, you may also have the option to take ‘wild’ modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may customise your programme and explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Possible modules may include:

• Romanticism
• Readings in the Twentieth Century
• Writing America
• Early Drama

You have the opportunity to select wild modules in this stage

Possible modules may include:

• Empire, New Nations and Migration
• Chaucer and Late Medieval English Literature
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Novelty, Enlightenment and Emancipation: 18th Century Literature
• Early Modern Literature 1500-1700
• Reading Victorian Literature
• Declaring Independence: 19th Century US Literature
• The Contemporary
• Modernism

Possible modules may include:

• The Stranger
• Postcolonial Writing
• Language and Place in Colonial and Postcolonial Poetry
• Places and Journeys
• Postcolonial Long Essay
• Postcolonial Long Essay
• The Unknown: Reading and Writing
• Native American Literature
• Bodies of Evidence: Reading The Body In Eighteenth Century Literature
• Unruly Women and Other Insubordinates: the dramatic repertoire of the Q
• Image, Vision and Dream: Medieval Texts and Visual Culture
• Heroes and Exiles: An Introduction to Old English Poetry
• The Brontes in Context
• American Crime Fiction