English Literature

Course summary

An established academic subject, and one of the Russell Group’s ‘facilitating subjects’, English literature is the study of drama, prose and poetry through technical and contextual analysis. A familiar subject to most, the new texts can be more challenging and need to be pored over in more detail. Conversely, they will be covered more quickly, and will be need to be read in light of critical material as well as an awareness of different contexts of production and reception. A love of reading analytically is therefore a prerequisite.