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)

• Arthurian Literature from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Game of Thrones (ESH283)
• Heroes and Outlaws in History and Fiction, 1100-1600 (ESH6029)
• Medieval Troy (ESH318)
• Introduction to Old English (ESH253)

Early-Modern Studies (Early Areas)

• The Court of Henry VIII: Then and Now (ESH272)
• Early Modern Drama (ESH292)
• Early Modern Fantasies (ESH360)
• Milton: Revolutions in Writing (ESH390)
• Renaissance Literary Culture (ESH267)
• Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama (ESH6022) (see also ESH6023 and ESH6024)
• 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)
• The Long Eighteenth Century in Ten Objects (ESH297)
• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City (ESH288)
• Romantics and Revolutionaries (ESH286)
• Romantic Travellers in Europe (ESH396)
• Satire, Scandal and Society 1700-1740 (ESH223)
• Seducing Narratives: Inventing the English Novel (ESH6013)
• Women and their Writing in the Romantic Period (ESH294)
• Writing and Vision in the Romantic Period (ESH334)
• Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century (ESH6067)

Nineteenth-Century Studies (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)

• American Money Novels 1793-1930 (ESH6018)
• American Romanticism (ESH255)
• Cultures of Inequality: Narrating Class 1815-1914 (ESH6034)
• Dickens and the City (ESH208)
• Gender and Imagination in Victorian Poetry (ESH385)
• Late Victorian Literature (ESH315)
• Terror, Transgression and Astonishment: the Gothic in the Long Nineteenth Century (ESH264)
• Thomas Hardy and the Victorian Modern (ESH300)
• Victorian Fictions (ESH279)
• Victorian Literature and Disability (ESH6062)

Modernism and the Early Twentieth Century (Modern Areas)

• All in the Mind: Literature and Consciousness (ESH6049)
• DH Lawrence: Controversy and Legacy (ESH381)
• High and Low Moderns (ESH6003)
• Modernism (ESH213)
• Modernism and Democracy (ESH350)
• The Writings of Edith Wharton (ESH6053)

Literature and Culture since WWII, World Literature (Modern Areas)

• After Postcolonialism (ESH6027)
• American Ecologies (ESH6068)
• British Fictions of the 1960s (ESH6030)
• Global Graphic Narratives (ESH6057)
• How Are We Feeling? Affect and/in Contemporary Literature and Culture (ESH6055)
• James Baldwin and American Civil Rights (ESH271)
• Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture (ESH6025)
• The Long Contemporary (ESH293)
• Look Who's Computing (ESH6058)
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures (ESH285)
• Time, Narrative and Culture (ESH387)
• Writing Muslims (ESH6026)
• Writing Now (ESH274)

Genre Studies and Critical Theory

• Art Histories: an Introduction to the Visual Arts in London (ESH249)
• Creative Writing Prose Fiction (ESH6043)
• Feminism(s) (ESH393)
• In an Ideal world: Utopias from Plato to the Present (ESH6017)
• Magical Narratives: Transformations of Romance (ESH6056)
• Manifestos in the Modern Political Imaginary (ESH6069)
• Michel Foucault (ESH319)
• Poetry and Media (ESH6051)
• Queering Utopia (ESH275)
• Reading Childhood Writing Children (ESH382)
• Reading Psychoanalysis, Reading Literature (ESH370)
• Text, Art and Performance in London (ESH227)