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MA Literary Studies: Pathway in Romantic & Victorian Literature and Culture

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    MA 1 year full-time or 2 years part-time

Course Description

This pathway of the MA in Literary Studies aims to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the literature of nineteenth-century Britain and its relationship to a wide variety of cultural, intellectual, geographic and historical contexts. You’ll compare key literary texts from the Romantic and Victorian periods, looking at how they relate. These are exciting periods of literature, full of radicalism and revolutionary change.

Both periods saw the development of new forms of literature and the adaptation of established genres.

We’ll help you understand the impact of a wide range of cultural, intellectual, geographic and historical contexts on 19th-century literary culture. You’ll be looking at topics as diverse as scientific discoveries, philosophy and religion and how they impacted writers at the time. We won’t just look at texts. We’ll be drawing on film and art to help our studies.

Entry Requirements

You should have (or expect to be awarded) an undergraduate degree of at least upper second class standard in a relevant/related subject.

You might also be considered for some programmes if you aren’t a graduate or your degree is in an unrelated field, but have relevant experience and can show that you have the ability to work at postgraduate level.

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Programme Funding

Goldsmiths offers a range of financial support including postgraduate scholarships, bursaries and fee waivers. These are awarded based on a variety of criteria, for example academic achievements or personal circumstances.

Student Destinations

Graduates of this programme have gone on to pursue careers in:

  • publishing
  • journalism
  • public relations
  • teaching
  • advertising
  • the civil service
  • business
  • industry
  • the media

Module Details

Compulsory module 

  • Nineteenth-Century Literature: Romanticisms 30 credits

You also take three options from the selection below, in addition to the compulsory module and dissertation.

Option modules 

  • Studies in Comparative Literature & Criticism 30 credits
  • Theories of Literature & Culture 30 credits
  • Modern Literary Movements 30 credits
  • Literature of the Caribbean & its Diasporas 30 credits
  • Introduction to American Literature and Culture 30 credits
  • Shakespeare and the Early Modern 30 credits
  • Postcolonial Fiction: Theory and Practice 30 credits
  • Postmodernist Fiction 30 credits
  • Rewriting Sexualities 30 credits
  • Literature and Philosophy 30 credits
  • Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Theory in Practice 30 credits
  • Documenting America: The Photo Text 1910 to 1960 30 credits
  • Reading Freud: Love & its Vicissitudes 30 credits
  • Twenty-First-Century American Fiction 30 credits
  • Palestine and Postcolonialism 30 credits
  • European Decadence and the Visual Arts 30 credits
  • Romantic Shakespeare 30 credits
  • The Contemporary American Novel in the Era of Climate Change 30 credits
  • Interculturality, Text, Poetics 30 credits
  • Elizabethan Style: Visual and Verbal 30 credits
  • The Post-Imperial City in Literature and Film 30 credits
  • Between Languages: Multilingualism and Translation in Contemporary Literature 30 credits
  • Text in Performance: Shakespeare 30 credits
  • American Science Fiction: 1950 Onwards 30 credits

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