English Literature

Course summary

English Literature will allow you to explore the richness and complexity of novels, poetry and drama. You will explore a wide range of texts, considering the contexts they were written in, and how readers have responded to them over time. For the examinations you will study the poetry of Christina Rossetti, the play A Doll’s House, Shakespeare’s great political play Coriolanus, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and a unit on unseen writing. For coursework you will study three modern texts, all post 1900 and one post 2000.