BA English Literature
Entry requirements
A level: AAB IB: 34 points
About this course
BA Honours in English. Core topics include Research Methods and Design & Creative Practice. The course offers optional overseas exchange semesters along with creative writing workshops in poetry, prose, and screenwriting. Research at the department received the highest rating in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework.
Modules
- Transformations
- Doing Criticism
- Beginnings
- Revolutions
- Introduction to Creative Writing
- Drama, Theatre & Performance
- Renaissance Bodies
- Writing New Worlds, 1688-1789
- Revolutionary Britain, 1789-1832
- Victorian Passions: Victorian Values
- Contemporary Cultures
- Creative Practice
- Monsters, Misery & Miracles: Heroic Life in Old English Poetry
- Poetry Workshop
- Theatre Script Workshop
- Prose Workshop
- Screenwriting Workshop
- Literatures of Decolonisation
- Early 20th Century American Literature
- Medieval Worlds, 1100-1500
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 1)
- Overseas Exchange (Semester 2)
- Career Development for final year students
- Sex and Money: Economies of the Victorian Novel
- Documentary Storytelling: Theory and Practice
- Dissertation: Long-Form Essay
- Independent Essay I (English Literature)
- Independent Essay II (English Literature)
- Landscapes of American Modernism
- Enlightened Romantics: A Revolution in Feeling
- Women on Trial: Gender, Power, and Performance in Shakespeare's England
- Time, Change, and the Life Course in Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
- American Poetry Now
- Prose Portfolio
- Theatre Script Portfolio
- Poetry Portfolio
- Screenwriting Portfolio
- Dissertation: Digital Exhibition
- Writing Liberty in the Romantic Era
- Literature and Human Rights
- Dissertation: Editing Project
- Fiction and the Philosophy of Terror: From the Supernatural to the Sublime
- Reading Freud: An Introduction to the Principles of Psychoanalytic Theory
- Freedom and Imagination: US Literature 1850-1900
- Envious Show: Wealth, Power and Ambition in Narratives of the Country House, 1550-2000
- Unsex'd Females: Feminism in the Age of Revolution and Reaction
- Keats and Romantic Epic
- Queer/Trans/Early Modern
- Growing Up Global: Children's Literature and the Child
- Shakespeare's Show Business