BA (Hons) English Literature

Year 1

LIT1015 Beyond Books 1 (20 credits)

LIT1016 Beyond Books 2 (20 credits)

LIT1020 Ways of Reading (20 credits)

LIT1021 Critical Theories (20 credits)

LIT1022 Introduction to Literary Periods and Genres 1 (20 credits)

LIT1023 Introduction to Literary Periods and Genres 2 (20 credits)

Language modules in French, Spanish or Mandarin, delivered at the Edge Hill Language Centre, are available to study as an integral part of this degree. A single Language module can be studied instead of either LIT1022 Introduction to Literary Periods and Genres 1 or LIT1023 Introduction to Literary Periods and Genres 2.

Year 2

You will select two of the following modules:

LIT2040 Renaissance Literature: Self and Society (20 credits)

LIT2048 Renaissance Drama (20 credits)

LIT2049 Literature 1660-1760 (20 credits)

LIT2050 Romanticism (20 credits)

You will select four of the following modules. It may also be possible to select up to two of these additional modules from the remaining Year 2 options above.

LIT2027 Texts in Motion: Film Adaptation (20 credits)

LIT2041 Literature Dissertation Project (20 credits)

LIT2042 Literature and Globalisation (20 credits)

LIT2043 Literatures of Conflict (20 credits)

LIT2044 About Love (20 credits)

LIT2045 Modern American Literature: 1865 to the Present Day (20 credits)

LIT2046 Pilgrims Progress: British Children's Literature from the 18th Century to the Present Day (20 credits)

LIT2047 Producing a Literary Publication (20 credits)

LIT2051 Special Author 1 (20 credits)

LIT2052 Satire in the Long Eighteenth Century (20 credits)

LIT2053 Writing the Female Body (20 credits)

LIT2054 Writing the Supernatural (20 credits)

LIT2055 Rogues' Gallery: Crime and Criminality in the Long 19th Century (20 credits)

LIT2056 Vampire Fictions (20 credits)

WRI2019 The Graphic Novel (20 credits)

If you studied a Language module in Year 1, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 2. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Year 3

You will select two of the following modules:

LIT3040 The Victorians At Work (20 credits)

LIT3041 The Victorians At Play (20 credits)

LIT3042 Modernisms (20 credits)

LIT3043 Contemporary Literature in English (20 credits)

You will select a total of 80 credits from the following modules. It may also be possible to select up to 40 of these credits (i.e. up to two modules) from the remaining Year 3 options above.

LIT3034 Gothic Romanticism (20 credits)

LIT3039 Literature Dissertation (40 credits)

LIT3044 Early American Literature: 1500-1865 (20 credits)

LIT3045 Hosting a Literary Festival (20 credits)

LIT3046 Narratives of Nation and Empire (20 credits)

LIT3047 Neo-Victorian Literature and Culture (20 credits)

LIT3048 Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll: Young Adult Fiction (20 credits)

LIT3049 Special Author 2 (20 credits)

LIT3050 Sexuality and Subversion (20 credits)

LIT3051 The Shakespeare Problem (20 credits)

LIT3052 Late-Victorian Gothic (20 credits)

LIT3124 Dickens and Popular Culture (20 credits)

LIT3125 Speculative Fiction (20 credits)

WRI3020 The Writer at Work (20 credits)

If you studied Language modules in Years 1 and 2, you may wish to study a further Language module in Year 3. This would form an integral part of your degree in place of one of the optional modules above.

Optional modules provide an element of choice within the programme curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements.