BA English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAA including English Literature or English Language & Literature
About this course
BA in English Language and Literature, exploring over one thousand years of writing from medieval texts to contemporary fiction. Students examine literary and cultural theory alongside historical contexts across a diverse range of written forms.
Modules
- Reading Literature
- Mapping the Medieval
- Theory and Text
- Literature and History
- English Literature Tutorials
- American Literature and Social Criticism, 1900-Present
- Twentieth Century African American Literature
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Chaucer: Texts, Contexts, Conflicts
- Shakespeare
- Gender, Sexuality and the Body: Theories and Histories
- Writing, Identity and Nation
- Postcolonial World Literatures
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Medieval Metamorphoses
- Renaissance Literature
- Old English: Writing the Unreadable Past
- Satire and Sentiment: British Literature, 1660–1820
- Modernism
- Romanticism (1776 - 1832)
- Introduction to Screenwriting
- Victorian Literature
- Love American Style
- Harlem and the State of Urban America
- Climate Change & Culture Wars
- James Baldwin in Context: Race, Sexuality and Activism
- Long Essay
- Creative Writing: Fiction
- Culture and Conflict: Neoliberalism and Cultural Production
- Creative Writing: Poetry
- Irish Fiction Since 1990
- Radical Turns: Culture and Politics in the 1930s
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary Global Novel
- Eros: Love and Desire in Victorian Poetry
- The History of the Book in Early Modern England
- Apocalypse: Early Modern Imaginings
- Queer Forms: Objects and Animals in Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Hypercontemporary Queer and Trans Fiction
- Haunting the Stage: The Supernatural in Early Modern Drama
- Things that Talk: Nonhuman Voices in Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture
- Culture and Politics in the Contemporary British Novel
- British Fiction and Empire in the Twentieth Century
- Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction
- Romantic Venice
- Co-operation, Competition, and Happiness: Dangerous Ideas in the Nineteenth Century
- Crime and Contemporary Culture
- Vital Matters: Medieval Ecologies
- Humans and other Animals in Contemporary Literature
- Women’s Writing, Citizenship, and Political Radicalism
- Literary and Sexual Experimentalism Between the Wars
- Contemporary South Asian Literatures
- Literary Landscapes
- Imaginations of the Future: People, Earth and Power
- Interdisciplinary Literature and Theology: Empathy, Ethics, Liberation