The School of English is renowned for the excellence of its research and teaching in all areas of English Literature, from the Medieval period to the contemporary.
This programme blends compulsory elements to enable you to extend and develop your research skills and explore research issues - such as the nature of archival study, genre and textuality, the relationship between print and manuscript, interdisciplinary, and questions of cultural and political context - and an optional element that enables you to specialise in a specific period.
This optional element is achieved through one of three pathways, which give you the opportunity to specialise in a particular field of literary study – these pathways are:
• The Long 19th Century
• 20th Century and Contemporary Literature
Authors and areas to be studied on these team-taught period-specific modules may include: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen and the novel; Lord Byron and Romantic poetry; Oscar Wilde and Victorian and fin-de-siécle literature; James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Modernism; D.H. Lawrence and regional literature; and a range of contemporary poets and novelists, such as Ian McEwan, Paul Muldoon, Alice Oswald, and Derek Walcott.
• This MA programme with its specialised pathways will be a superb opportunity to prepare for future research at doctoral level.