English Module Subject Areas (Level 5 and 6 options)
Elective modules offered at Levels 5 and 6 in the Department of English have been organised under the following subject area categories. Please note that in practice some modules will fall into more than one subject area; for the sake of brevity and convenience, each module is listed only once.
- Old English and Medieval Literature
- Early-Modern Studies
- Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism
- Nineteenth-Century Studies
- Modernism and the Early Twentieth Century
- Literature and Culture since WWII, World Literature
- Genre Studies and Critical Theory
Old English and Medieval Literature (Early Areas)
- Chaucer: Gender, Faith, Identity (ESH5003)
- Grief and Consolation: Writing Death in the Middle Ages (ESH6078)
- Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction from 1100 to 1600 (ESH6063)
- Introduction to Old English (ESH6073)
Early-Modern Studies (Early Areas)
- Conspiracy, Misinformation, and Power in Early-Modern Literature (ESH6075)
- Global Shakespeare (ESH5001)
- Love Poetry in the Medieval and Early-Modern Worlds: A Global Perspective (ESH6081)
- Reading Early-Modern Recipes (ESH6090)
- Renaissance Drama (ESH280)
- Renaissance Literary Culture (ESH267)
- Shakespeare: the Play, the Word, and the Book (ESH366)
- The Thousand and One Nights (ESH296)
Eighteenth-Century Studies and Romanticism (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)
- Guillotines, Ghosts and Laughing Gas (ESH6041)
- Jane Austen: Regency Novelist (ESH6046)
- Object Lessons: The Eighteenth Century in Ten Things (ESH6082)
- Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City (ESH288)
- Romantics and Revolutionaries (ESH286)
- Romantic Women Writers (ESH6065)
- Solitude in Life and Letters in Enlightenment Britain (ESH6028)
- Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century (ESH6067)
Nineteenth-Century Studies (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)
- American Romanticism (ESH255)
- Cultures of Inequality: Narrating Class 1815-1914 (ESH6034)
- Reading Late Victorian Literature (ESH6083)
- Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century (ESH264)
- Victorian Fictions (ESH279)
- Victorian Sensation Fiction (ESH380)
Modernism and the Early Twentieth Century (Modern Areas)
- All in the Mind: Literature and Consciousness (ESH6049)
- Modernism (ESH213)
- Modern Literature and Democracy (ESH350)
- The Crisis of Culture: Literature and Politics, 1918-1948 (ESH270)
- Virginia Woolf (ESH330)
Literature and Culture since WWII, World Literature (Modern Areas)
- After Postcolonialism (ESH6027)
- British Fictions of the 1960s (ESH6030)
- Contemporary Poetry (ESH6072)
- Global Graphic Narratives (ESH6057)
- James Baldwin and American Civil Rights (ESH271)
- Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture (ESH6025)
- The Long Contemporary (ESH293)
- Postcolonial and Global Literatures (ESH285)
- Reading the Contemporary Middle East (ESH6084)
- Time, Narrative, and Culture (ESH6066)
- Writing Black and Asian Britain (ESH6086)
Genre Studies and Critical Theory
- Ancient Myth / Modern Theory (ESH348)
- Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London (ESH249)
- Creative Writing Prose Fiction (ESH6043)
- Criticism and Code (ESH6087)
- Feminism(s) (ESH393)
- London Walking the City (ESH295) (Module only available to associate students)
- Michel Foucault (ESH319)
- Reading Childhood / Writing Children (ESH382)
- Teaching Trans Lives (ESH6061)
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