English Literature: Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian MSc 12 months Postgraduate Programme By The University of Edinburgh |TopUniversities

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Our MSc in Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian gives you the opportunity to engage with a range of topics in literary study, centred on the literary history of England, Scotland and Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries.


This taught masters programme includes two core seminar courses in literature, one per semester. These examine how literary genres in prose and verse developed alongside significant shifts in intellectual, social and political contexts from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 to the end of the Victorian era.


In this time period, key developments include:


  • the Enlightenment, the invention and elaboration of modern ‘liberal’ ideas of society
  • Romantic conceptions of nationality and national history
  • the challenge to these ideas presented by industrial society and a global imperial polity


Our core courses in literary studies will cover the ways in which novels and poems mediated, reflected and resisted these and other developments.


Alongside these courses, you will also take one option course in both semesters, choosing from a range of options. 


You will also study research skills and methods in both semesters to help prepare you for your masters dissertation, an independent piece of research of 15,000 words. For your dissertation, you will pick a topic that aligns with your own interests and typically complete the writing between April and August. 

Programme overview

Main Subject

English Language and Literature

Degree

MSc

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Our MSc in Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian gives you the opportunity to engage with a range of topics in literary study, centred on the literary history of England, Scotland and Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries.


This taught masters programme includes two core seminar courses in literature, one per semester. These examine how literary genres in prose and verse developed alongside significant shifts in intellectual, social and political contexts from the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 to the end of the Victorian era.


In this time period, key developments include:


  • the Enlightenment, the invention and elaboration of modern ‘liberal’ ideas of society
  • Romantic conceptions of nationality and national history
  • the challenge to these ideas presented by industrial society and a global imperial polity


Our core courses in literary studies will cover the ways in which novels and poems mediated, reflected and resisted these and other developments.


Alongside these courses, you will also take one option course in both semesters, choosing from a range of options. 


You will also study research skills and methods in both semesters to help prepare you for your masters dissertation, an independent piece of research of 15,000 words. For your dissertation, you will pick a topic that aligns with your own interests and typically complete the writing between April and August. 

Admission Requirements

Entry requirements for individual programmes vary, so please check the details for the specific programme you wish to apply for on the University of Edinburgh website. You will also need to meet the University’s language requirements.

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