English Literature and History : BA Hons : QV31

Many of Lancaster's degree programmes are flexible, offering students the opportunity to cover a wide selection of subject areas to complement their main specialism. You will be able to study a range of modules, some examples of which are listed below.

Core

• English Literature
• From Ancient to Modern: History and Historians

Optional

• Brave New Worlds? Modernisms and Modernities
• From Great War to Total War?
• Reform, Rebellion and Reason: Britain, 1500-1800
• The Fall of Rome
• World Literature

Core

• Making History: Contexts, Sources and Publics
• The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

• A History of Paris, c. 1730 to the Present
• After Vietnam: Remembering, Representing and Refighting the 'Bad War'
• American Literature to 1900
• Athens, Sparta and Alexander the Great, 403-31 BC
• Between Two Worlds: Russian History 1825-1914
• British Romanticism
• Gandhi and the End of Empire in India, 1885-1948
• Literature, Film, and Media
• Nature and culture 1500-1700: Themes from the Renaissance
• Partisans and Collaborators: World War II in Occupied Europe
• Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
• Restless Nation: Germany in the 20th Century
• The English Civil War (1640-1660)
• The History of the United States, 1789-1865
• The Victorians and Before: Britain, 1783-1901
• Victorian Literature

Optional

• 'The Shock of the New': Modernity and the Modernisms of American Culture, 1877-1919
• 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
• Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
• African Literature
• Between the Acts
• Bible and Literature
• British and American Crime Stories 1840-2000
• Contemporary Fiction and Critical Theory
• Contemporary Literature in English
• Contemporary Middle Eastern Literatures
• Culture, Heritage and Creative Industries: Work Placement
• Dissertation Unit
• Early Modern Outlaws: On Land and Sea
• Elizabethan Embodiment
• England and Englishness
• Gender Identities in the People's War: Experiences, Representations and Memories
• Literary Film Adaptations, Hollywood 1939
• Literature and Religion at the Fin de Siecle
• Literature and the Visual Arts
• Modernism towards Postmodernism
• Monstrous Bodies: Romantic Period Poetry and Prose
• Other Victorians
• Performing Death, Desire and Gender
• Premodern Gothic
• Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
• Representing Palestine: Creative Constructions of a Nation
• Ruskin on Art, Architecture and Society
• Schools Volunteering Project
• Science Fiction in Literature and Film
• Seeing Triple: Expansive American Fiction
• Shakespeare
• The Break-Through Book: Five Twentieth-century Poets
• The Byron-Shelley Circle
• The Impostor Novel: Impersonators and Charlatans in Modern Fiction
• The Literature of Sleep
• The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
• Thinking Through Twenty-First Century World Literature and Theory
• Twenty-First Century Fiction
• Utopias and Utopianism
• Victorian Autobiography
• Victorian Gothic
• Victorian Popular Fiction
• Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
• Women and Poetry in America,1960 to the present
• Women Writers of Britain and America
• Writing in Lancaster Castle
• Writing the Lancashire Witches

Lancaster University offers a range of programmes, some of which follow a structured study programme, and others which offer the chance for you to devise a more flexible programme. We divide academic study into two sections - Part 1 (Year 1) and Part 2 (Year 2, 3 and sometimes 4). For most programmes Part 1 requires you to study 120 credits spread over at least three modules which, depending upon your programme, will be drawn from one, two or three different academic subjects. A higher degree of specialisation then develops in subsequent years.

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.