English Literary Studies

Entry requirements

First- or upper second-class degree or an equivalent standard in other qualifications approved by the University in English literature or a cognate discipline.

Months of entry

September

Course content

The programme comprises a wide range of topics and approaches, enabling students to practise textual, cultural and theoretical modes of analysis important to advanced research in English and the humanities in general. The dissertation allows you to focus on a single topic.

Core module: Adventures in Literary Research

Optional modules: Four from: Eighteenth Century Fiction; Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century; Approaches to the Nineteenth Century; Approaches to the Long Twentieth Century; Women in the French Revolution; Unknown Jane Austen; Scriptwriting; Victorian Readers and the Politics of Print; Writing for Children and Young People; Art and Craft of Fiction 1 and 2; Poetry and the City; Literature and Law; Literature and Race; Case Histories: Literature and Medicine; Modernisms and Modernities; Sweatshops, Sex Workers and Asylum Seekers: World Literature and Visual Culture after Globalisation; another Humanities or Winchester School of Art MA module.

Plus dissertation.

Information for international students

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/uni-life/international.page

Fees and funding

https://www.southampton.ac.uk/uni-life/fees-funding/pg-fees-funding.page

Qualification and course duration

MA