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MA English Literature

This course critically explores the history of literature in relation to the social, cultural and political circumstances from which it emerges.

Making use of London’s museums, galleries, and libraries as an integral part of its teaching and learning, the course particularly focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, on London as both a site for the subject of writing, and on the relations between writing and other areas of cultural production, particularly film and the visual arts.

Members of staff teaching on the course are active in research and publication. Recent work includes books and articles on modernism, Victorian poetry and the novel, contemporary fiction, the gothic, urban theory, gender and sexuality, science fiction, critical theory, photography and literature, post-colonialism, and the avant-garde.

Course Structure and Content

The MA course has two core modules: Reading and Re-Reading I and Reading and Re-Reading II. These provide the historical and theoretical framework for understanding and analyzing the key issues and debates within your chosen course of study. The third core module in Semester 3 is the dissertation of 10–12,000 words, which is normally written at the end of the course, and is on an appropriate topic of your choice. In addition, depending on the course programme that you choose, you have a variety of exciting and engaging modules from which to select your options.

Current students can view more information by selecting the module below.

Core Modules

Optional Modules

For an informal discussion about our MA English Literature programme please contact the course director: Dr Leigh Wilson