BA English

Entry Requirements

• AAB-ABB; 
• IB: 34-32.
• GCE AL English Literature grade A; IB English HL6.
• Candidates may offer either GCE AL English Literature or English Language and Literature.

Curriculum

Year 1

• Shakespeare and the History of Ideas
• Foundations
• Critical Theory    
• Reinventions

Year 2

• Renaissance, Reformation and Rebellion: English Literature 1580-1700
• From Romanticism to Decadence
• From Modernism to the Contemporary
• Reason & Passion: Literature 1700-1799

Year 3

• Dissertation
• Creative Writing Dissertation

English Level 3 optional modules (choose 3)

• Witchcraft, Magic and Gender in Literature
• Women's Writing: Romantic to Modern
• The Gothic
• Tolkien: Scholar, Critic, Writer
• Literature, Culture, and Crisis in Early Modern England    
• Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature
• 'Great Hatred, Little Room': Irish and Scottish literature, 1800-1939
• Inventing the Body
• Decadence and the Birth of Modernism
• British Children's Literature
• Revenge
• Short Fiction