English Literature

About this course

English literature at Birmingham City University is taught as an adventure through some of the most important works in the English language, from ancient classics and the plays of Shakespeare through Romantic poetry and Gothic fiction, Victorian novels, and modern and contemporary writing. The subject asks not just what these texts say but what they do: how they construct meaning through form and language, how they reflect and challenge the historical and social contexts from which they emerge, and what they reveal about human experience at its most illuminated and complex. You will study for three years full-time, developing both breadth and depth through modules that survey how literature has changed across different periods and themed modules that examine how writers handle questions of environment, gender, sexuality and race. You will study the making and meanings of narrative and p

Where its graduates go

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