Modern Literature & Culture

Overview
Explore a broad range of literature and culture from Britain, North America and the English-speaking world covering the 19th and 20th centuries. The course offers you the chance to delve into a range of research topics and texts from this period including Victorian Studies, Modernism, and American Studies. It will give you the opportunity to read widely and to think broadly across conventional period boundaries, with optional modules ranging from lyric poetry to the graphic novel.
You'll be studying at one of the oldest English departments in the country in a fantastic central London location where you'll get the chance to explore the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries in a place where that literary history actually took place and you'll benefit from being in London, where the city and its rich literary heritage will be your classroom.
As part of the course you will receive experience and training in a wide variety of research, writing and presentation skills and you'll get the chance to complete a large-scale research project within a research environment which values independent thought.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Key benefits
Unrivalled location in the centre of London, with easy access to the British Library and the major libraries and archives of the capital.
Flexible programme with a wide range of optional modules covering Victorian Studies, Modernism, and American and Transatlantic Studies allowing you to specialise in areas of yourchoice.
A dynamic, research-led department with an international reputation for excellence and special strengths in Victorian, Modernist and American literature.