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Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940

From Emily Brontė's Yorkshire to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, the Gothic, with its claustrophobic spaces, brooding landscapes, dark secrets, and ghostly visitations, is a privileged site for the negotiation of […]

Fiction and Espionage (Postgraduate)

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 […]

Feeling Tragic: Tragedy and Eighteenth-Century Histories of Emotion (PG)

Why do we enjoy tragedy? What is pleasurable about watching suffering? Why are pity and fear good kinds of emotions to have? How should we relate to tragic heroes and […]

Fantastic Fiction

This course is being proposed to complement existing options available to students on the MSc programme in Comparative and General Literature. It offers an opportunity to engage with a wide […]

Fairy Tales (Postgraduate)

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 […]

Exploring the Novel

This course will examine a range of novels from a variety of periods and introduce students to various critical debates surrounding the form. We will examine selected works with a […]

Boundaries of the human: gender, madness and werewolves in medieval literature

This course focuses on the definition of the human self in the Middle Ages and the different ways in which notions of 'selfhood' and the human are perceived and explored […]

Body in Literature

The aim of this course is to introduce some of the most influential ways in which literary writing has depicted and explored the human body, and to explore such ideas […]

Lena Wånggren

Dr Lena Wånggren teaches courses on English and Scottish Literature, gender studies and feminist writing, in the English Literature department and at the Centre for Open Learning.

Greg Walker

Professor Greg Walker (he/him) is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. Greg is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the […]

Suzanne Trill

Suzanne’s early research focused on Tudor and Jacobean English women’s devotional poetry, specifically Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke and Aemilia Lanyer. After finding a manuscript by Anna Walker in the British […]

Katharine Swarbrick

Katharine Swarbrick began her research career by writing on Lacanian perspectives on the psychopathology of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, about which she is currently completing a monograph. Her exploration into interrelations between […]

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