BA English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB (Creative Writing, English Language and Literature, or English Literature)
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature. Core topics include Research Methods. The programme covers literature across multiple historical periods and cultures, with modules exploring intersections between literature and film, art, and history. Creative writing modules are available, and a dissertation is completed in the final year.
Modules
- Transforming Visions: Text and Image
- Reading Up Close
- Ways of Reading: Literature, Culture, Theory
- Writing at University and Beyond
- Sacred and Supernatural in the Renaissance
- Encountering Bodies in Medieval Literature
- Creative Writing I
- Creative Writing II
- Shakespeare's Worlds
- Twentieth-century Literature: Conflict, Crisis, Experimentation
- Victorian Worlds: Forms of Transformation
- Contemporary Literature and Culture: States of Emergency
- Eighteenth-century and Romantic Poetry and Prose
- Britain and Beyond: Literatures of the Medieval World
- Seen and Unseen: Tracing the (In)visible in Film and Visual Culture
- Feminisms
- Literature, Science and Environment
- Uncanny Encounters: Gothic and Culture from the 1760s to the Present
- Race, Empire, Nation
- A History of Books from Parchment to Pixel
- Literature for All
- Dissertation
- Gender and Monstrosity: Late/Neo Victorian
- Military Masculinities in the Long Nineteenth Century
- Island Stories: Literatures of the North Atlantic
- Activist Poetry: Protest, Dissent, Resistance
- Romantic Circles: Collaboration, Radicalism and Creativity 1770-1830
- Shakespeare's Fractured Britain
- Visions of Past and Future in Children’s Books
- The Medieval Supernatural: Death, Demons and Ghosts
- Literature and Psychology: To Freud and Beyond