English Module Subject Areas (Level 5 and 6 options)

ENGLISH SUBJECT AREAS

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)
  
• Medieval Dreams and Fantasies (ESH6050)
  

Early-Modern Studies (Early Areas)

• Conspiracy, Misinformation, and Power in Early-Modern Literature (ESH6075)
  
• Global Shakespeare (ESH5001)
  
• Reading Early Modern Recipes (ESH6090)
  
• Renaissance Drama (ESH280)
• 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: The Revolutionary 1790s (ESH6079)
• Jane Austen: Regency Novelist (ESH6046)
• Representing London: Writing the Eighteenth Century City (ESH288)
  
• Romantic Women Writers (ESH6065)
• Romantics and Revolutionaries (ESH286)
• Writing Empire: the Eighteenth Century (ESH6067)
  

Nineteenth-Century Studies (Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries)

• Cultures of Inequality: Narrating Class 1815-1914 (ESH6034)
• Gender and Imagination in Victorian Poetry (ESH385)
• Reading Late Victorian Literature (ESH6083)
• Victorian Fictions (ESH279)
• Victorian Sensation Fiction (ESH380)

Modernism and the Early Twentieth Century (Modern Areas)

• Enchantment and Enquiry in Modern(ish) Writing 1900-60 (ESH6096)
• Modernism (ESH213)
  
• Modern Literature and Democracy (ESH6064) 

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

• Contemporary Poetry (ESH6072)
• Laughing Matters: Comedy and Contemporary Culture (ESH6025)
• Postcolonial and Global Literatures (ESH285)
• Reading Global Graphic Narratives (ESH6085)
• Reading the Contemporary Middle East (ESH6084)
• Reading the Present (ESH5006)
  
• Time, Narrative, and Culture (ESH6066)
• Writing Black and Asian Britain (ESH6086)
• Writing South Africa: Race, Nation and Text (ESH379)
  

Genre Studies and Critical Theory

• American Ecologies (ESH6093)
• Ancient Myth / Modern Theory (ESH348)
• Creative Writing Prose Fiction (ESH6043)
  
• Criticism and Code (ESH6087)
• Feminism(s) (ESH393)
• London Walking the City (ESH295) (Module only available to associate students)
• London's Art Histories (ESH5005)
• Magical Narratives: Transformations of Romance (ESH6056)
• Poetry and Media (ESH6051)
• Reading Childhood / Writing Children (ESH382)
• Reading Psychoanalysis Reading Literature (ESH370)
• The Great American Novel (ESH6098)