Joint Honours English Literature year 2 modules

Optional modules (may include) 

Histories of Literature (students choose 2)  

• Songs and Sonnets: English Poetry from Wyatt to Donne

• The Canterbury Tales 

• Popular Fiction before the Novel

• Epic Ambitions

• Stories of the Novel

• Writing the Restoration

• Fin de Siecle

• Romantics and Romanticisms

• Victorian Literature

• Aspects of Modernism 

• New World Orders? Literature after 1945

• Twenty-First-Century Literature

Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean

Themes in Literature (students choose 1)

• Colonial/Postcolonial 

• Digital Futures

• Enterprising English 

• Introduction to Gender and Sexuality Studies 

• Rags and Riches: Wealth and Poverty in American Literature and Culture 

• Shakespeare's Sisters

• The Gothic

• The Use of Genre: Nefarious Plots, Cheap Thrills and the Search for Meaning

• Tragedy

• Utopia/Dystopia

• Rude Writing: Satire and its Targets