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