B.A. English (Hons)

Course Content Year 1In Year 1 we prepare you for advanced literary and creative studies by providing modules that develop the broad range of writing, reading and analytical skills you need to achieve a good degree. You will take the following core modules:

• Literature Lab

• Reading Fiction

• Travels in Text and Time

• Writing, Identity and Place in a Digital Age

You will also choose two of the following optional modules:

• Classics of British Children’s Literature
• Transformative Texts in American Literature
• Approaches to Poetry
• Drama and Performance

Year 2In Year 2 you will broaden and deepen your knowledge of literature. You will take two of the following year-long period modules:

• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama

• Sentiment and Scandal: Literature and Culture in the Long 18th Century

• British and American Modernism

You also choose four of the following semester-long optional modules:

• The Age of Chivalry and Romance

• Love and Desire in Renaissance Literature, c.1530-1633

• Romantic Poets from Blake to Tennyson

• Brief Encounters with the Victorians

• Voyage Out: Travel, Empire, and Cultural Encounters

• The Child in British and American Literature and Culture

• Reinventing Literature, 1950 to Now

• The Child in British and American Literature and Culture

• War, Writing and Remembrance

• American Rebels: Reading 20th Century US Counterculture

• American Gothic

• Creative Enterprises

• Written on the Body: Rethinking Gender and Sexuality

For more information please visit the programme website!