English Literature and Religious Studies : BA Hons : QV36

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
• Religions of the Modern World

Optional

• World Literature

Core

• The Theory and Practice of Criticism

Optional

• 18th Century Literature
• American Literature to 1900
• British Romanticism
• Buddhism and Modernity in Asian Societies
• Christianity in the Modern World: Traditions and Transformations
• Hinduism in the Modern World
• Indian Politics, Society and Religion
• Islam: Tradition, Community and Contemporary Challenges
• Literature, Film, and Media
• Renaissance to Restoration, English Literature, 1580-1688
• Victorian Literature
• Western Philosophy and Religious Thought

Optional

• 21st Century Theory: Literature, Culture, Criticism
• 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
• Indian Religious and Philosophical Thought
• 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
• PPR in India
• Premodern Gothic
• Public and Private Performances of Self in Medieval Literature and Drama
• Reading Buddhism
• Reading Islam
• Religion and politics
• Religion in schools
• 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 Byron-Shelley Circle
• The Impostor Novel: Impersonators and Charlatans in Modern Fiction
• The Literature of Sleep
• The Postcolonial Indian Novel in English
• Utopias and Utopianism
• Victorian Autobiography
• Victorian Gothic
• Victorian Popular Fiction
• Where Do Poems Come From? Process, Manuscripts, Text
• Women Writers of Britain and America
• Writing in Lancaster Castle

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.