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The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature (Undergraduate)

This course introduces students to different concepts and discourses of terror in romantic period literature. It concentrates mainly on the relationship between the aesthetic category of the sublime and the […]

Fiction and Espionage (Undergraduate)

The course addresses the modern history of contemporary concerns about secrecy and the surveillance state, terrorism and propaganda. Students will follow a broadly chronological survey from the end of the […]

Fairy Tales (Undergraduate)

This course is intended to introduce students to significant exponents of the literary fairy tale in Britain and Europe from the Renaissance to the contemporary period, enabling them to explore […]

Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiments in Waywardness (Postgraduate)

This course examines discourses of female identity in contemporary culture, focusing on representations which challenge existing modes and ideals of femininity in a diverse range of texts, enabling students to […]

World Literature

This option introduces students to the concept of World Literature, its development and current debates. Students will read primary texts that have gained a place in 'world literature', a term […]

Twenty-First Century Fiction

This course introduces students to the major themes, crises and debates surrounding the contemporary novel, exploring how authors have responded to the cultural and technological challenges of living in the […]

Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide

Thinking Translation: a Beginner's Guide will introduce students to the challenges brought about by translation through a consideration of various genres and themes. The course will present various theoretical approaches […]

Theories and Methods of Literary Study II

Having pushed the boundaries of the discipline of Comparative Literature in the first semester course, this second semester course enacts a return to the more familiar territory of the literary […]

The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature (Postgraduate)

This course explores literature of the Romantic period (1790-1830) in Britain in relation to the aesthetics and politics of 'terror.' *This course is taught jointly with undergraduate students and consequently […]

The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (PG)

This course surveys the novel in Britain at a crucial stage in its development, namely the decades after the French Revolution in 1789. In this period the novel’s formal resources […]

The Contemporary Irish Novel 1960 to the Present

This course will explore representations of Ireland and Irishness in contemporary Irish novels. Famous for its literary tradition, since 1960 Ireland has gone through radical social and political transformation and […]

Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing (Postgraduate)

The course will use the figure of the stranger to introduce students to a range of post-war writing from the 1950s to the present. The stranger here takes many forms: […]

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