English Literature

About this course

English literature is the close study of the full range of literary texts in the English language, developing your ability to read with attention, interpret with rigour and write with precision about how literature creates meaning, what it reveals of its cultural and historical contexts, and why it continues to matter. It is a discipline that ranges from medieval poetry and early modern drama through Romantic, Victorian and modernist writing to the most contemporary fiction and poetry, and it engages with the theoretical frameworks, from feminist and postcolonial criticism to narrative theory and ecocriticism, that have expanded and enriched literary interpretation. At the University of Leeds, this three-year full-time programme is taught within one of the UK's most active and research-rich schools of English, with particular strengths across many periods and movements in English and wo

Where its graduates go

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