Study Details: MA 1 year full-time,
2 years part-time
Study the literature, culture and history of the long 18th century from new perspectives.
Develop your understanding of some of the major issues, debates and discourses that shaped British cultures and their relation to other cultures in the 18th century. Taught by world-leading scholars from the Departments of English, History, History of Art, and Archaeology, you’ll explore many different aspects of the era. You can construct a distinct programme of study from a range of options across the different disciplines. You’ll develop an intellectual curiosity that is open to different methods of inquiry, and will carry out a substantial piece of independent research.
You’ll engage with the wider research culture of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, which is based in the historic King’s Manor, and be part of the Humanities Research Centre, a vibrant interdisciplinary hub.
2:2 or equivalent. We do not assume that you have any prior knowledge of more than one discipline, or that you wish to abandon whatever discipline you pursued in your earlier studies. We will consider applications from students with lower qualifications, particularly if you have high marks in relevant modules or appropriate professional experience.
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Our postgraduates go into a wide variety of industries, from arts administration to law. Many of our alumni have also gone on to become successful novelists, poets and playwrights.
Core modules
Transforming Worlds: The Interdisciplinary Eighteenth Century
Postgraduate Life in Practice
Option modules
You will choose three option modules from examples, including:
Global Eighteenth Century
Wollstonecraft to Jane Austen: Femininity & Literary Culture
Taking Pleasure in the Eighteenth-Century: England, 1650-1800
JMW Turner
The Margins of Empire: Frontiers & Borderlands in the Americas & Southeast Asia, 1550-1800
Gothic Bodies
Literature, Medicine & Metropolis 1785 - 1850
Can the Madwoman Escape the Attic?: Race, Slavery, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Smell and the Past: Noses and Environments from the Rome to Virtual Reality
South Asian Renaissance: Early Modern Indian Court Painting, 1526-1857
Some option modules combinations may not be possible. The option available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
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