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Suggested optional reading 

The English Literature admissions tutor Dr Amy Burge provides her reading suggestions for each of our English Literature pathways.

If you're considering the Medieval Literature pathway

• Donoghue, Daniel, ed., Seamus Heaney, trans., Beowulf: A Verse Translation (W. W. Norton, 2001)

• The Public Medievalist 'Games' archive
• The Public Medievalist 'Film & TV archive' 

If you're considering the Long-Nineteenth Century pathway

• Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796), edited by Tone Brekke and Jon Mee (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

• Elizabeth Gaskell, Cousin Phillis and Other Stories, edited by Heather Glen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

If you're considering the Modern and Contemporary pathway

• Virginia Woolf, The Waves, To the Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway 
• T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
• Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner 
• Bernadine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other 

If you're considering the Popular Literature and Culture pathway

• Kristen Roupenian, "Cat Person", The New Yorker (4 December 2017)
• Mikaella Clements, “From Star Trek to Fifty Shades: how fanfiction went mainstream,” The Guardian (8 August 2018).