English Language & Literature

Currently, students study the following core modules. If there are option modules available the current choices are also shown. King's reviews its option modules on a regular basis, in order to continue to offer innovative and exciting programmes and this list is therefore subject to change. Please check here for updates.

You will take eight modules, one of which is an optional module taken with another department.

• Classical and Biblical Contexts of English Literature
• Introducing Literary Theories
• Language and Time
• Medieval Literary Culture
• Reading Poetry
• Renaissance Literature
• Writing London

Selected options may be offered by the following departments:

• American Studies
• Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies
• Centre for Computing in the Humanities
• French
• Comparative Literature
• Film Studies
• Modern Language Centre
• Portuguese & Brazilian Studies
• Spanish & Spanish American Studies
• Theology & Religious Studies

You will choose eight modules from a wide range of options. The department operates a banding system in the second year, to ensure a balanced programme of study. The following options may be offered in a given year.

• A Mad World, My Masters: Performing Culture in Jacobean London
• Australian Literature and Film
• Creative Writing: Poetry
• Cultural Encounters: Literature & Language in Anglo-Saxon England
• Early Modern Sexualities
• Eighteenth-Century Travel Writing
• First World War Literature
• History, Politics & the Elizabethan Imagination
• Irish Literature & Culture
• Language of Dance
• Modernist Fiction
• Rise of the Novel
• Narrating the Nation
• Performance in Medieval Culture 
• Romanticism, Revolution and Representation 1776-1832
• Shakespeare in London
• Subjects of Desire in Medieval Religious Writings
• The Fin de Siecle
• Theatre Capital
• Victorians & Social Change 1840-1870

You will choose eight modules from a wide range of options. Alternatively, you will have the option to choose six modules and a dissertation option. The following options may be offered in a given year.

• Ancient Lyric and Poetry
• Autobiography & Modern Self-Representation
• Beowulf: Heroes and Other Monsters
• British Literature and Film
• Court Cultures in the Age of Elizabeth I
• Creative Writing: Drama
• Critically Queer: Literature, Culture & Queer Theory
• Elizabethan Shakespeare 
• Gender and Performance
• Imagined Worlds
• Jacobean Shakespeare 
• James Joyce & Ulysses 
• Jane Austen in Context
• Literature and Impressionism
• Medieval Romance
• Memory and Time in the 19th Century
• Performance Philosophy
• Post Colonial Australian Literature
• Post Colonial Perspectives