English Literature pathway final year modules 

Optional modules (may include) 

English Literature Options 
(students choose 2, 3, or 4 depending on whether they wish to major / minor in Literature / keep an even split between both subjects) 

• American Frontiers: Nation and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
• Bedtime Stories: Reading Children’s Picture Books
• Bringing Out the Bodies: Technology, Transhumans and Skin
• Decoding Pop Culture
• Elizabeth I and her Poets
• Fantastic Beasts and Where They Came From
• Fantasy and Fandom: Writing Back to the Medieval in Modern Fantasy
• From Plato to the Postmodern: Theories of Literature and Art
• Hidden Romanticism
• Interactivity: The Theory and Practice of Getting Stuck In 
• Islamophobia and the Novel
• Jane Austen: the Novels and their Afterlives
• Last Year's Novels
• Law and Literature
• Making Global Literatures in Britain
• Minds, Bodies and Medicine 
• Modern American Poetry
• Multiple Voices: New York City Poetics, 1960-1985
• Neo-Victorianism 
• Orwell's Books: Writing Politics, Resisting Tyranny 
• Politics and Terror in the Age of Revolutions 
• Postcolonial Poetry and Poetics  
• Professional Skills (work-based placement) 
• Remembering World War One
• Senses of the Past: Historical Fiction in the Long Nineteenth Century
• Shakespeare's Tragedies
• Single Author: Virginia Woolf
• The Figure of the Witch: Witch Writings c. 1400 - 1700
• The Work of Giants: Old English Tales and their Afterlives in Fiction and Film 
• Writing / Painting