English Literature

This full-time, BA (Hons) English Literature degree will introduce you to key concepts and periods in your first year. Available with optional placement year. Learn from world-leading experts as you study the works of authors who have helped shape the English literary landscape.

Our English Literature degree is a fantastic opportunity to pursue your love of literature – studying texts from the Renaissance period right through to the twenty-first century. The course offers our most comprehensive survey of literary-historical development while retaining a high level of optional choice in second and third year. You’ll develop key skills, using different theoretical approaches to interpret texts across a number of genres, and will be able to tailor our English Literature degree to suit your interests.

You will be introduced to important concepts and periods, through a range of carefully designed core modules introducing the fundamentals of poetic language and form, the study of language, literary theory, narrative forms and fictions, and the major periods of literary history. In addition, optional modules examine the significance of literature in the digital age.