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COURSE OVERVIEW
Pursue your love of literature at an advanced level, study modules on topics from the Renaissance to the modern day, and gain research skills that will help you stand out to employers or progress to a PhD. Our Masters course is ideal if you want to advance your teaching career or begin the move into academia.
Pursue your love of literature at an advanced level, study modules on topics from the Renaissance to the modern day, and gain research skills that will help you stand out to employers or progress to a PhD. Our Masters course is ideal if you want to advance your teaching career or begin the move into academia.
Full description
- Join an ideal course to advance your teaching career or begin the move into academia
- Gain a broad understanding of English literature on modules from the Renaissance to the modern day
- Tailor the course to meet your own interests, with optional modules including novel writing and publishing.
- Develop research skills that will help you stand out to employers or progress to a PhD
With an overall focus on literature, politics and social change, our MA English Literature will equip you to engage with the interface between literature and society. By reading and contextualising a wide range of texts within their critical, cultural and historical contexts, you will be encouraged to evaluate the ideas of others and develop your own critical perspectives and areas of specialised knowledge.
You will develop skills and knowledge through a range of teaching and learning methods and by producing essays, presentations, annotated bibliographies, review essays, dissertation proposals, and a major research project in the form of a dissertation. The skills you learn will provide new directions for future employment and form the basis for further study.
The course focuses on three periods of literary history: the Renaissance, the ‘long’ nineteenth century and the 20th/21st century. Each of the three period-based modules is structured around ideas of politics and social change. The fourth module is a research methods module, which will equip you with the skills needed to complete your dissertations.
You will study in a lively and intellectual department with a long tradition of teaching excellence and an international reputation for research.
CAREERS
This course will give you the higher-level skills to stand out in today’s competitive job market.
If you are a teacher, you could study with us to update your knowledge and further your existing career, or even move into another discipline. Or, if you are hoping to move on to an academic post, this course will give you the research skills you will need for a PhD.
MODULES & ASSESSMENT
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Major Project
This module will support you in the preparation and submission of a Masters dissertation, allowing you to explore in-depth a particular topic that reflects your academic interest. -
Shakespeare and Society
On this module, you will focus on a detailed study of Shakespeare’s works and their later performance, history and creative reception in the context of the social changes at work both in his era and in the centuries which followed. You will study a wide-ranging selection of Shakespeare’s works, including examples from all major genres. You will explore key cultural contexts, such as gender, race, politics and power, in relation to both the early modern stage and to later adaptations and performances. From the seventeenth century to the present day, Shakespeare’s works have been re-appropriated within a range of different cultural, geographical and political contexts. This module will require you to examine an indicative selection of these: global performances, film versions, poetic and visual responses, prequels and sequels in fiction and drama. You will also be required to engage with relevant critical and theoretical debates. Your two assessment elements for this module consist of a 1000-word critical review and a 5000-word essay. -
Revolution and Reform in the Long Nineteenth Century
On this module, you will examine writing produced during the ‘long’ 19th century that relates to or engages with the revolutions and major reforms between 1789 and 1914. The controversies and revolutions of the period are political, religious, social, cultural, and scientific: for example, the political ferment in Britain following the French Revolution and after the Napoleonic Wars, and the continuing pressures for a widening of the franchise throughout the Victorian period and beyond; the socio-scientific debates about sanitation in overcrowded Victorian cities; social, political, medical and legal debates about the status of women; and the changing scientific and religious divisions prompted by evolutionary hypothesis and discovery. You will consider the imaginative use of contemporary debate in the work of, for example, Wordsworth, Shelley, Dickens, Tennyson, Gaskell, Eliot and E.B. Browning alongside the strategies in a wide range of other writing and graphic art, paying close attention to the changing historical and political context. Your assessment will consist of two elements: a 10-minute oral presentation using PowerPoint or Prezi in which you will analyse a critical essay or article and assess its usefulness in relation to a literary text or texts, and a 5000-word essay on a topic of your choice, devised in consultation with the module leader. -
Twentieth and Twenty First Century Fiction and Social Change
This module provides a survey of literature from the 20th and 21st centuries. You will analyse fiction within a framework of social and political change. Centring on a number of key developments – the first and second world wars, gendered and sexual change, migration and multiculturalism, the rise of neo-liberalism and 9/11 – you will explore a range of literary and theoretical texts. Your assessment will include two elements, the first a 1000-word literature review discussing one key area of social change and its relationship to developments in fiction, the second comprises a 5000-word essay on a topic of your choice, devised in consultation with the module team. -
Research Methods – English Literature
This module covers the research methods necessary for completion of the MA dissertation, including topics such as developing research questions, critical practice and theory, archives, research methodologies, bibliographies, library searches, writing review essays, drafting proposals and structuring a dissertation. It will prepare you for the dissertation and give you an understanding of the literature and research methods in a specific aspect of the discipline of English. You will also have the opportunity to reflect on the nature of research and the discipline of English. You assessment will include three tasks, each of which will focus on your individual dissertation topic.
Assessment
In consultation with the Course Leader, you will have the opportunity to replace one core module with an Independent Learning Module or a module from the MA Publishing or MA Creative Writing.
Publishing modules include:
- Creativity and Content in Publishing
- Legal Rights and Digital Issues in Publishing
- The Business of Publishing
- Production Processes in Publishing
Creative Writing modules include:
- Patterns of Story: Fiction and Forms
- Workshop: the Short Story
- Workshop: the novel
NB: To be considered for enrolment on any of the Creative Writing modules, you will be asked to submit a sample of your own writing and information on any creative writing study or experience you have in the semester before their chosen workshop begins. Please contact the Course Leader for further information in the first instance.
Your assessment will comprise a combination of essays, critical reviews and presentations, as well as a 15,000-word dissertation.
You can get advice on essay writing at consultation workshops which are built into the course.
