English Literature

Course summary

The course is designed to ensure that students study a very wide range of writers and texts from different historical periods and different social and cultural backgrounds. While Exam 1 encourages the students to demonstrate their close analytical skills, appreciating and exploring at least one Shakespeare play as well as comparing and contrasting a prescribed pre-1900 poet and a pre-1900 dramatist, Exam 2 and the coursework unit, Literature post-1900, both encourage students to pursue their own wider reading in relation to particular periods and genres.