BA English Literature with History

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Bachelor's degree

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Buckingham

  • Start date

    Different dates available

English Literature here is taught to small groups by energetic and enthusiastic staff, led by Oxford-trained academics with international research profiles in 19th and 20th-century studies. Ideas developed in core seminars are taken forward in weekly small-group tutorials, where half a dozen students are encouraged to discuss and interpret specific passages of writing, under the watchful guidance of their tutor.Our students are expected to read widely, and to develop strong lines of argument and personal responses to what they find, anchored in an informed understanding of the discipline and with reference to the critical debates that animate it.

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Buckingham (Buckinghamshire)
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Hunter Street, MK18 1EG

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Subjects

  • Politics
  • English
  • Drama
  • Restoration
  • Writing
  • American Literature
  • Poetry
  • Prose
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Shakespeare

Course programme

The degree is structured around a combination of period study, thematic study, and modules inculcating theoretical and practical skills. Victorian literature modules cover prose from Dickens to Gaskell, and poetry from Browning to Hardy; twentieth-century literature topics range from Rhys, Hurston, Woolf, and Plath to Hemingway, Forster, Larkin, and Beckett. Shakespeare is one central focus. Other earlier writers who are studied include Marlowe, Donne, Webster, Herbert, Milton, Dryden, Centlivre, Swift, Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, Keats, and Shelley. You can explore some of the modules on this website. Thematic study encourages students to analyse contextually based on sociological variations, gender, contemporary politics, and psychological influences. We encourage the understanding of contemporary literary and cultural theory while never losing sight of the values of liberal/aesthetic education.The History minor offers outline and conceptual courses which concentrate on the period from 1800 to the present day – all of which are apt to complement contextual Literature courses throughout. So the programme not only teaches literature; it also teaches you to think historically and to research and write coherently with historical content in mind.Our recent graduates have gone on to pursue careers in the media, creative writing, teaching, academia, business and marketing.Modules available on this course

English modules

  • Contemporary Writing
  • Creative Writing 1
  • Eras of English (September entry)
  • Fiction and Theory
  • Film Studies
  • Literary Journalism (1642-present)
  • Modern American Literature
  • Modernist Writing
  • Plays in Performance (September entry)
  • Poetry and Poetics
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Restoration and Augustan Literature
  • Rewriting Empire
  • Romantic Literature
  • Shakespearean Drama
  • Victorian Fiction
  • Victorian Poetry
  • Women’s Writing

History modules

  • Africa and the Dominions
  • Appeasement and War
  • European Industrial Revolutions
  • History Study Skills
  • Intervention, Free Trade and Protection
  • Liberalism and Nationalism
  • Rivalries and Alliances 1879-1914
  • The Historian at Work
  • The Rise of the Dictators
  • Theories of Empire and India
  • Victorian Culture

Full course information in the University Handbook

BA English Literature with History

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