Library holding, VCR/DVD/OHP
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Rob Pope, The English Studies Book (Routledge, 2002)
David Lodge The Art of Fiction (Penguin, 1992)
Terry Eagleton How to Read a Poem (Blackwell, 2007)
Barry Peter Beginning Theory. An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory Manchester (Manchester University Press) 2002
Briggs Julia This Stage-Play World: Texts and Contexts, 1580-1625 Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1997.
Bristow Joseph (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge UP) 2000
Butler Marilyn Romantics Rebels and Reactionaries. English Literature and its Background 1760-1830 Oxford (Oxford University Press) 1981
Gilbert Sandra / Gubar Susan The Madwoman in the Attic New Haven (Yale) 1979

Delivery will be in weekly lectures and seminars (seminars will be divided up by personal tutor groups).

A strong historical emphasis will form the basis of the organisation for this module. Its aim is to familiarise students with the periods of modern English literature and draw attention to some of the central themes and issues arising. In this way the module aims at developing the skills involved in close reading and essay writing. It introduces the main literary forms, key terms and methods of analysis, critical debates on issues of text and context and seminal theoretical approaches to literary study. Students will have intensive training in how to write university level essays in literary criticism.

Students will have to use the Blackboard online system as part of this module for a self-assessment plagiarism exercise, for group and tutor interaction, for submitting work, and downloading assignment questions.

An ESSAY length 1500 WORDS weighted at 40% (end of semester 1). Learning outcomes: 1,2,3,4.
A 2ND ESSAY length 1500 WORDS weighted at 60% (end of semester 2). Learning outcomes: 1,2,3,4.