Year 1
Semester One
CORE [?]
Semester One

ENGL6132Credit[?]: 30
Adventures in Literary Research
OPTIONAL
ENGL6134Credit[?]: 30
Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century
ENGL6130Credit[?]: 30
Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)
ENGL6131Credit[?]: 30
Approaches to the Long Twentieth Century (1914-Present)
ENGL6116Credit[?]: 15
Writing for Children and Young People
ENGL6117Credit[?]: 15
The Art and Craft of Fiction
ENGL6126Credit[?]: 15
Special Project (Text, Context, Intertext)
Eighteenth Century Fiction: This special project invites you to explore the place of the novel in eighteenth-century culture, and to assess contemporary critical debates on the subject. While some critics have explored the early contexts of fiction writing in the late seventeenth century, the uncertain position of fiction between truth and lies, and the relationships between novel and romance, others have proffered Marxist re-readings of the traditional canon outlined by Ian Watt in The Rise of the Novel, turned to the vast number of non-canonical texts in order to raise questions of literary value, femininity and sexuality, or focussed upon fiction as a central act of cultural production. Taking a small number of texts central to these debates, this special project offers the opportunity to explore some of the issues raised.

ENGL6128Credit[?]: 15
Special Project (Text, Culture, Theory)
Literature and Law: This special project examines the interface between literature and law in the following key ways: through the representation of law within literature; the representation of law as literature; the use of literature in law; and laws relating to literature. It will examine a range of literary and legal texts from the nineteenth century to the present.

ENGL6138Credit[?]: 30
Approaches to Jane Austen
HUMA6017Credit[?]: 15
Remaking Rome
HIST6103Credit[?]: 30
Jews and Non-Jews: relations from antiquity to modernity
HIST6114Credit[?]: 15
The Medieval World: sources and approaches in pre-modern history
HIST6093Credit[?]: 15
Jewish Society and Culture in Eastern Europe
HIST6098Credit[?]: 15
Histories of Britain and Empire
HIST6125Credit[?]: 15
The Environment in Modern China 1800-2018
HIST6118Credit[?]: 15
Observing society and self in Britain c.1880-1980
HIST6030Credit[?]: 15
German Nationalisms since the Englightenment
Semester Two
CORE [?]
Semester Two / Summer

ENGL6135Credit[?]: 60
English Dissertation
OPTIONAL
ENGL6115Credit[?]: 15
Scriptwriting
ENGL6127Credit[?]: 15
Special Project (Text, Context, Intertext)
Unknown Jane Austen: Jane Austen is one of the most celebrated English writers today, but was largely unknown in her time. This special project module invites you to explore various facets of this ‘unknown’ Jane Austen by examining Austen’s literary culture, pursuing the tributaries of her imagination and technique, and looking again at some of the texts that mattered most to her, the better to assess the balance of emulation and innovation in her novels.

Modernisms and Modernities: This special project module aims to provide a cultural history of the dynamic relationship between modernism and modernity in the early twentieth century. It focuses on the political, social, philosophical and technological dimensions of modernity, and the impact that this had on cultural and artistic expression from the Imagists through to Beckett. The course will also introduce you to current debates in modernist studies; indicative topics include the body and technology in modernist literature, the audience and market for modernism, the modernist city, and the importance of interdisciplinary practices in modernist culture.

ENGL6129Credit[?]: 15
Special Project (Text, Culture, Theory)
Victorian Readers and the Politics of Print: Beginning with the frequently proposed shift from intensive to extensive modes of reading in the 18th century, the module will consider the varied effects on Victorian reading communities of compulsory education, secularisation, social migration and new technologies, examine the complex ways in which print and the politics of taste intersected with Marxist and ‘New Woman’ ideals, and consider the very different ways in which British literature circulated in colonial contexts in this period.

Race and Literature: This special project module traces the conceptual trajectory between social Darwinist theories of race and the post-modern refutation of the ‘illusions of race’ by examining how racialised bodies and identities are represented in a range of literary texts in which they linked to various other social constructs and institutions – including slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, Empire and its legacies. Comte de Gobineau’s theories about the inequality of races will be allowed to be interrogated by the narrative of a female slave, W.E.B. Du Bois’ ground-breaking notion of double consciousness will be placed alongside Bildungsromane from both Harlem and the Caribbean, and ideas related to ethnic hybridity and silencing related to narratives of colonial India and postcolonial Australia. We will discuss the interface between race, culture and religion, and there will be sessions on multiculturalism and the framing of Muslims, migrants and asylum seekers in the recent ‘war on terror’.

HUMA6015Credit[?]: 15
Narrative Non-Fiction: The Interdisciplinary Art
ENGL6141Credit[?]: 15
Fiction Before Austen
ENGL6113Credit[?]: 15
Jane Austen's Style
ENGL6133Credit[?]: 15
Shakespeare and his World
ENGL6139Credit[?]: 30
Jane Austen and the Heritage Industry
FILM6044Credit[?]: 15
The Holocaust in American Film
HIST6113Credit[?]: 15
The conversion of the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews and Christians
HIST6116Credit[?]: 15
Nehru’s India: Nationalism, Difference and the Path to Development (1930-1963)
HIST6124Credit[?]: 15
Religion and Politics in Henry VIII's England
HIST6115Credit[?]: 15
English Social and Cultural Life in the Long Eighteenth Century
HIST6123Credit[?]: 15
New Approaches to American History
HIST6108Credit[?]: 15
France and the World since 1789
HIST6121Credit[?]: 15
Digital Frontiers: Conflict in Cyberspace, 1967 – present