English Literature

Course summary

The English Literature course aims not simply to provide students with a detailed understanding of individual texts, but also an awareness of the breadth and variety of our literary heritage. Literature is concerned with ideas, feelings and experience expressed in the language of various types of artists – but it is centrally concerned with placing literature in a wider context in order to deepen an appreciation of the world. As such, the course helps students to understand the issues at the heart of people’s lives in the past, today and in the future.