SED Undergraduate Module Directory

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)