English Literary Studies - MA

The MA in English Literary Studies offers several different pathways each specialising in a period or area of study, and enabling students to craft a degree that suits them:

• English Literary Studies which allows study across a range of periods and subjects
• Early Modern Literature including Shakespeare and the Renaissance
• Romantic and Victorian Literature
• Modern and Contemporary Literary Studies including Film and Media
• Critical-Creative Writing which combines critical approaches to writing with the practice of writing itself, including fiction and poetry
• Literary and Cultural Studies which is taught with the Department of Sociology and explores contemporary debates in cultural theory

Course Structure

You will study a range of modules as part of your course, some examples of which are listed below.

Core

• Research Methodology and Reflective Practice in English Literature II
• Research Methodology and Reflective Practice in English Literature I

Optional

• MA Pathway Special Subject
• Contemporary British Fiction
• Posthumanism: Literature after the human
• Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen
• Victorian Literature and Other Media
• Romance and Realism
• Writing the Nineteenth Century City
• Premodern Bodies
• Emotional Geographies in Early Modern Literature
• Contemporary American Fiction
• On Location in the Lakes
• Postcolonial Women's Writing
• Victorian Extremes: the Coming of Modernity
• 19th Century Literature and Technology
• Literature and Film
• Rewriting the Victorians
• The Byron-Shelley Circle
• Subcultural Fictions
• Reading Adventure Stories
• Fusions
• Romantic and Victorian Epic: Exploring Four Great Poems
• Modernisms
• Romanticism: People, plants and animals
• Romanticism on Location: Writing in the Lake District and the Alps
• Nineteenth Century Literature: Place - Space - Text

Information contained on the website with respect to modules is correct at the time of publication, but changes may be necessary, for example as a result of student feedback, Professional Statutory and Regulatory Bodies' (PSRB) requirements, staff changes, and new research.

Assessment

Combination of coursework, dissertation and research methodology portfolio

Visit the English Literary Studies - MA page on the Lancaster University website for more details!