Level 1: Text and readers; fiction and form; English Renaissance texts and contexts; writing in the 18th century; the novel in early Victorian culture; contemporary literatures; writing and change: literary production in the 1930s; women and writing; recreating our own texts; approaching autobiography; introduction to comparative literature; an anatomy of language.

Level 2: Modules include: theoretical perspectives; texts and contexts: a decade study: 1860s; the 18th-century novel; 19th-century single American author study: Emily Dickinson; Tennyson and the pre-Raphaelites; Irish literary renaissance; Shakespeare: playwright and poet; studies in Jacobean and Caroline drama; romanticism: romantic reflections; 19th-century single author study: George Eliot; modernism and Empire; black American women writers; literature and film; language and learning; women's autobiography; post-colonial fiction; independent study.

This subject can also be studied within the degree programme BSc (Hons)/BA (Hons) in Modular Studies.