2023/24
Course image EN3E4:Eighteenth-Century Literature 2023/24
 
Course image EN3E9:States of Damage: Twenty-First Century US Writing and Culture 2023/24
 
Course image EN3G1:Queer and There: Queer Theory and the History of Sexuality in the Global Context 2023/24
 
Course image EN3G4:Literature, Theory and Time 2023/24
 
Course image EN3M1:Text/Styles: Fashion and Literature 2023/24
 
Course image EN3M2:Global Literary Radicalisms: Proletarian Literature from the Russian Revolution to Anti-colonial Resistance - 3rd year 2023/24
 
Course image EN3M3:Modernity at Sea: Indian Ocean Literatures 2023/24
 
Course image EN3M4:Sick Imagination: Disability, Illness and the Critical Medical Humanities 2023/24
 
Course image EN9A3:The Caribbean: Reading the World - Ecology 2023/24
 
Course image EN9A7:Drama and Performance Theory 2023/24
 
Course image EN9B5:World Literature in the Anthropocene 2023/24
 
Course image EN9B8:Queer Theory and Praxis 2023/24
 
Course image EN9C1:Critical Theory Today 2023/24
 
Course image EN9C8:Early Modern Ecologies 2023/24
 
Course image EN9D1:Yiddish Women in World Literature 2023/24
 
Course image EN9ZE:Critical Environments 2023/24
 
Course image EN9ZF:Shakespeare in History 1 2023/24
 
Course image EN101/EN2J4/EN3J4:Epic into Novel 2023/24
 
Course image EN107:British Theatre Since 1939 2023/24
 
Course image EN121/EN2J5/EN3J5:Medieval and Early Modern Literature 2023/24

This module will study a number of works of medieval and early modern literature in the context of contemporary beliefs and historical and social developments. The module will be taught by means of lectures on the historical, cultural and critical context; seminars to discuss particular texts; and (in weeks 2-5 of term 1 only) supplementary classes to help develop your skills in reading texts written in earlier forms of English.

Works studied include: The Canterbury Tales; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; The Book of Margery Kempe; travel writingpoems by Sidney, Spenser, and Mary Wroth; and medieval and early modern drama.