MA option modules

Please note that the choice of options is subject to change from year to year.

All option modules carry 20 credits.

Option choices vary according to the MA programme followed.

You may choose one 20-credit option module from outside of your own MA course; however, you must obtain the permission of the relevant course convenors before doing so.

Option modules (not all will be available each year):
Words and Word Meanings
English Books and Texts 1060 - 1220
Charles Dickens
Evolution and Entropy: Changing Representations of the Sciences in Victorian Literature
Victorian Lives: Life-writing in the Victorian Period
Women in Literature, Culture and Society, 1850 - 1900
Literature and Culture in 1859
The Brontes
Anglo-Jewish Literature and Culture
Literature and Exile: American Writers in Paris
Poetry Writing and Contemporary Poetry
Literature and Gender: Deviant Bodies and Dissident Desires
Writing Fiction
Heroic Poetry in Old English and Old Norse
Classical and Post-Classical Latin
Managing Knowledge: Dictionaries and Ideology
Introduction to Manuscript Studies
Gender and Sexuality in Medieval European Literature
The English Country House in Literature
Journeys 1500 - 1700
Journeys 1700 - 1830
Anglo-Saxon Paganism: Writing the Non-Christian in Anglo-Saxon England
Gender, Language and Discourse
Narrative: Theories, Texts and Practices
Old English
Sex and Sexuality in Old English Literature

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