English Literary Studies : MA
Master
In Lancaster
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Lancaster
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Duration
12 Months
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Start date
Different dates available
The MA in English Literary Studies offers several different pathways each specialising in a period or area of study, and enabling students to craft a degree that suits them:
English Literary Studies which allows study across a range of periods and subjects
Early Modern Literature including Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Romantic and Victorian Literature
Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies including Film and Media
Critical-Creative Writing which combines critical approaches to writing with the practice of writing itself, including fiction and poetry
Literary and Cultural Studies which is taught with the Department of Sociology and explores contemporary debates in cultural theory
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About this course
2:1 (Hons) Bachelor's degree (UK) or equivalent in English Literature or related subject, for example literature in other languages.
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Subjects
- English
- Writing
- Media
- Modern Literature
- Methodology
- English Literature
- Research Methodology
- Reflective practice
- Special Subject
- British Fiction
- Contemporary
Course programme
You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below.
Core
- Research Methodology and Reflective Practice in English Literature II
- Research Methodology and Reflective Practice in English Literature I
Optional
- MA Pathway Special Subject
- Contemporary British Fiction
- Posthumanism: Literature after the human
- Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen
- Victorian Literature and Other Media
- Romance and Realism
- Writing the Nineteenth Century City
- Premodern Bodies
- Emotional Geographies in Early Modern Literature
- Contemporary American Fiction
- On Location in the Lakes
- Postcolonial Women's Writing
- Victorian Extremes: the Coming of Modernity
- 19th Century Literature and Technology
- Literature and Film
- The Byron-Shelley Circle
- Reading Adventure Stories
- Fusions
- Romantic and Victorian Epic: Exploring Four Great Poems
- Modernisms
- Romanticism: People, plants and animals
- Romanticism on Location: Writing in the Lake District and the Alps
- Nineteenth Century Literature: Place - Space - Text
Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.
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English Literary Studies : MA