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Overview
Learn how different societies have shaped, and been shaped by, English literature on our full-time English Literature degree in Cambridge. Choose to study abroad in Belgium, Spain or the US. Become a self-reliant researcher as well as developing many critical and communication skills required in the modern workplace.
- Join a course that scored 100% overall satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2017
- Explore classic literary texts alongside genres including sci-fi and children’s literature
- Improve your writing skills, both critical and creative
- Engage with the global publishing industry while living and learning in Cambridge, a centre for literature and publishing
- Learn from the author who wrote the book on Studying English Literature
- Study abroad in Belgium, Spain or the US, and apply for funding to help cover the cost
Our BA (Hons) English Literature will help you understand the importance of English literature; how it is affected by the culture, language, technology and economics of the period, but also how it influences readers and society itself.
By studying English literature, you will also be exploring a range of other subjects, including history, politics, philosophy, religion, psychology and the history of art.
You will be encouraged to work and think independently, helping you become self-reliant and critically adaptive, with the ability to consider perspectives that are different to your own or to popular opinion. Some exercises will involve you in group work, presenting ideas and information or finding solutions to problems with others, promoting your interpersonal skills and your ability to negotiate.
As well as developing skills such as literacy and communication, which are important for any future career, you will become well-versed in the specific methods of literary research, such as bibliographies, databases and information technology.
Our optional modules will also give you the chance to practise and develop your own creative writing, as well as explore the processes of the modern publishing industry. Other options you can take include Writing World War One, Black British Fiction, Theorising Children’s Literature and Renaissance Magic. In Year 3, you can develop your own interests and independent research skills by undertaking a short or long Major Project on a subject of your choice, working with a member of staff with expertise in your chosen area.
Your studies will be supported throughout the course by our team of English literature and writing experts. These include Course Leader Dr Cassie Gorman, (The Atom in Seventeenth-Century Literature, forthcoming); Dr Tory Young, (Studying English Literature, a text used on many other University courses as well as our own); Professor Eugene Giddens (Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: A Publishing History); and Professor Sarah Annes Brown (A Familiar Compound Ghost: Allusion and the Uncanny).
Careers
We work with employers to make sure you graduate with the knowledge, skills and abilities they need: they help us review what we teach and how we teach it.
As well as teaching, the most popular choice of career for our graduates, our students have gone on to find success in many different roles including journalism, television, radio, the music industry, arts administration, gallery work, fundraising, personnel work, publishing, librarianship, marketing, local authority work, publicity, social work, tourism and IT-related industries.
You might also decide to carry on to a Masters course after you graduate, such as our:
- MA Children’s Literature
- MA Creative Writing
- MA English Literature
- MA Publishing
- MA Science Fiction and Fantasy
Modules & Assessment
Year one, core modules
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A History of English Literature, from the present to 1789
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Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Prose Fiction
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Gods and Heroes
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Reading Literature and Theory
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Myth and Magic
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Writing Matters
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A History of English Literature from Equiano to Chaucer
Year one, optional modules
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Fundamentals of Publishing
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Introduction to Imaginative Writing: Poetry and Plays
Year two, core modules
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Romantic Conflicts
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Postcolonial Writing
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Modernism and the City
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Victorian Literature and Culture
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The European Novel: Desire and Transgression
Year two, optional modules
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Writing Short Fiction
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Dialogue and Debate: More to Milton
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The History of the Book
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Black British Writing
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News and Feature Writing
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Writing World War One: Trauma, Memory, Resistance
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Myth and Medievalism
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Special Topic 1
Year three, core modules
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Spectacle and Representation in Renaissance Drama
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Contemporary Fiction
Year three, optional modules
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Major Project
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Independent Research Project (English Literature)
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Theorising Children’s Literature
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Elizabeth Gaskell and the Brontës
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World Literature
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Renaissance Magic
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Modern Science Fiction
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Writing Poetry
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Special Topic 2
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Literature and Medicine
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Romantic Idealism
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Literature and Exile: Displacement, Identity, Self
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Publishing in Practice
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Employability for English Literature
Optional modules available all years
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Anglia Language Programme
Assessment
For a full breakdown of module options and credits, please view the module structure (pdf).
To show your progress towards becoming a reflective and autonomous learner, you will undertake a variety of assessment methods, including: critical reflection; essays; portfolios; reviews; oral presentations; written examinations and discussion boards.
Where you’ll study
Your department and faculty
At the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, we believe in thinking critically about the past, present and future to challenge perceptions and better understand communities and people.
With expertise from gender issues to literary analysis to exploring how the past has shaped our modern world, all our staff members are active researchers. This is reflected in our teaching, allowing us to support our students with the latest theories and practices, as well as essential employability advice.
