English and American Literature – (M.A.)

Contents

The School offers a number of distinct MA programmes, and plays a central role in the interdisciplinary MA in Medieval and Early Modern Studies.

The English MA literature programmes aim to increase your knowledge of the key elements that make up the complex nature of English and American literature and culture. The programmes give a wider and deeper understanding of the writers and areas studied, encourage you to probe the theoretical and scholarly issues which you could explore in further research, and offer opportunities to develop your creative writing.

Each MA programme consists of four taught modules and a 12-15,000 word dissertation or equivalent. You must get satisfactory results in your taught modules before going on to spend the final third of your MA course writing a dissertation on a topic of your choice. On the Creative Writing MA the dissertation is replaced with a creative writing project in which a collection of poems or a substantial work of fiction will be produced.

As a basis for work on your dissertation and advanced research, you are also required to take the School and Faculty research methods programmes.

Availability of modules

Not all modules listed here necessarily run every year. Please consult the School for details of availability.

Course content
Examples of modules available:

* American Modernism
* Centres and Edges: Modernist and Postcolonial Quest Literature
* Colonial and Postcolonial Discourses
* Extremes of Feeling: Literature and Empire in the 18th Century
* Imagining India
* Jane Austen and Material Culture
* Other Americas
* Modern Poetry pathway: Men and Women: Modernist Poetry & Post-War British and American Poetry
* Dissertation

Assessment
Assessment is by a 5-6,000-word essay for each module, and a 12-15,000-word dissertation.