English Literature BA (Hons)

Core modules:

• Critical Reading 1
• Critical Reading 2
• Introduction to English Studies
• Early English Texts and Contexts

Optional modules:

• Introduction to Poetry
• Transatlantic Narratives
• America and Americanisation
• The Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic
• American Genres
• Fictional Writing
• Scriptwriting
• Creative Non-Fiction
• Poetry and Poetic Expression
• Approaches to Language Study
• Understanding Language 1: Syntax and Morphology
• Understanding Language 2: Semantics, Phonetics and Phonology
• Understanding Language 3: Semantics and Pragmatics
• History of the English Language

Optional modules:

• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
• Seventeenth-Century Literature and Revolution
• Nineteenth-Century Romanticism
• The Modern Age
• Chaucer and His World
• Shakespeare and Seventeenth-Century Drama
• Eighteenth-Century Romanticism
• Victorian Fictions
• Sex and Sensibility in Eighteenth Century Print Culture
• Eighteenth Century Performance and Censorship
• Gothic and Romantic Fiction
• Postcolonial Fictions
• The Postmodern Age
• Individual Project
• Literary Adaptations for Film and Television or Literature and Film
• Contemporary Children's Literature
• Volunteering for BA English
• American Gothic
• American Science Fiction
• Writing America
• Work and Money in American Literature
• Middle English Texts in Context
• Old English 1
• Textual Editing in Theory and Practice
• Children's Literature and Young Adult Fiction

Students may also choose one Creative Writing module and one English Language module.

Core modules:

• Dissertation
• Creative and Critical Extended Study

Optional modules:

• The Shakespeare Phenomenon
• African America
• Crime and Englishness
• Women's Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century
• Biography and the Body
• William Blake: Poet of Jerusalem
• Twentieth Century Dramatic Texts: Brecht and Beckett
• Consumer Culture
• Jewish Identities
• Keywords
• Literature, Sexuality and Morality
• The City in American Literature 1868-1925
• Renaissance Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth I
• Romantic Celebrity Culture
• Globalisation and Contemporary Fiction
• Literature and Psychoanalysis
• Contemporary Young Adult Fiction
• The Figure of the Law in Literature
• Post-Structuralism: Theory, Text, Culture
• African American Literatures and Cultures
• The Contemporary American Novel
• American Crime Fiction
• "Sex and the City "and Beyond
• Chick Lit/Womens Writing before "Sex and the City"
• Old English 2
• Utopian and Dystopian Fiction
• The Victorian Art of Murder

Students may also choose one Creative Writing module and one English Language module.

For further information about modules, please view the course leaflet (see right hand side).

Please note the modules listed are correct at the time of publishing, for full-time students entering the programme in Year 1. Optional modules are listed where applicable. Please note the University cannot guarantee the availability of all modules listed and modules may be subject to change. For further information please refer to the terms and conditions at /termsandconditions. The University will notify applicants of any changes made to the core modules listed above.