BA (Hons) English Literature

All students take Critical Reading I in the first year. This core module introduces a variety of texts and critical debates, and provides a foundation for English Literature in Years 2 and 3. All other first-year modules are optional.

· Critical Reading I (core); EN4001 Critical Reading 1 Order Form 2015-2016 (1).xlsx

· Writing and the Self;

· Writing, Gender and Politics, 1500-1750; EN4002 Writing, Gender and Politics Order Form 2015.xlsx

· Scandal and Sobriety: Enlightenment to Victorianism, 1750-1890; EN4003 Scandal and Sobriety Order Form 2015.xlsx

· From Decadence to the Naughties, 1890-2009; EN4004 From Decadence to the Naughties Order Form 2015 (1).xlsx

· Print, Book, and Candle: the production, form and reception of literary texts.

Current Year 2 modules:

· Critical Reading II (core);

· Theatre, Sex and Power in Early Modern England;

· Nineteenth-Century European Literature;

· Gothic Origins and Innovations, 1780-1890;

· Poetry;

· Historical Fiction;

· Three Women Writers;

· Gender & Eighteenth-Century Literature;

· Canadian Literature and Culture;

· Post-Colonial Literatures;

· Practical Criticism and Close Reading;

· Reading Animals;

· Writing America: Identity, Ethnicity, Nationhood;

· Manifesto!;

· Crime Fiction;

· Twentieth-Century Irish Writing;

· Renaissance Worlds: sixteenth and seventeenth-century poetry;

· Adventures in Periodical Culture: beyond the book, 1700-1960.

Current Year 3 modules:

· Research Project (compulsory for Single and Major Hons. English);

· Shakespeare;

· Aspects of Modernism;

· Writing and the Environmental Crisis;

· Twentieth-Century European Literature;

· Virginia Woolf;

· Sylvia Plath;

· Bronte and Dickens;

· Gothic Revivals;

· Authors, Books and Readers in Early Modern England;

· Literary London;

· Margaret Atwood;

· In Search of America;

· Publishing: the Literary Journal;

· Empire and Identity in the 18th Century;

· Caribbean Writings, 1950 - the present;

· Women's Writing 1960-2000;

· Irish Women's Writing;

· European Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco;

· Ian McEwan;

· Gender, Race & Nation in Early Modern Britain;

· Literature & Evil;

· Love & Desire in Contemporary Culture;

· Meanings of Friendship in Literature and Philosophy;

· Literary Women, Work and Art: Romantic to Modern;

· Contemporary Crime Fiction;

· Digital Literary Studies;

· Literature and Psychology.

Most modules use essays with other forms of coursework such as journals, portfolios and short critical pieces, projects and dissertations, or special assignments such as seminar presentations, collaborative magazines, and web-based essays. Some modules include seen and unseen exams. Second and final year grades contribute towards your final degree award.