Compulsory elements: Dissertation Research Methodology


Bodies and Spirits in Early Modern Literature Place and Politics in Early Modern Literature


Optional modules currently include: American Fiction Film Theory and the Creative Process of Writing for the Screen


Locating Contemporary Poetry: The Living Tradition Regional Writing/Readerly Homes The Noir Thriller from 1930 to the ‘Near Future’ Contemporary British Fiction Terrorism and Post-modern Novel Post-colonial Women’s Writing and Film Contemporary Literature and Technology Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen Romanticism and Literary Theory 19th Century Literature and Technology On Location in the Lakes The Victorian Novel and Film


Romance and Realism: The Evolution of 19th Century Fiction


Nineteenth-Century Literary Siblings Literature and Film Victorian Extremes: the Coming of Modernity Fusions: Genres, Critical and Creative Subcultural Fictions Writing the Nineteenth-Century City Rewriting the Victorians The Byron-Shelley Circle


Literary and Cultural Studies This MA pathway is offered jointly between ourselves and the Lancaster Institute of the Creative Arts (LICA). It is designed for those wishing to extend the limits of traditional criticism to explore the many texts and contexts of present-day culture, including literature, cinema, theatre, hypertext and visual culture. There is a strong emphasis upon the interface between literary studies and contemporary debates in cultural theory.


Compulsory modules: Dissertation


Critical Debates in Cultural Studies Research Methodology


Optional modules currently include: Enjoyment, Technology, Consumption


Debates in Contemporary Feminism: Feminism and Post- Colonial Theory


Feminist Cultural Theory Popular Visual Culture American Fiction Theory and the Creative Process of Writing for the Screen Locating Contemporary Poetry: The Living Tradition Regional Writing/Readerly Homes The Noir Thriller from 1930 to the ‘Near Future’ Contemporary British Fiction Terrorism and Post-modern Novel Post-colonial Women’s Writing and Film Contemporary Literature and Technology Contemporary Gothic: Text and Screen


Romantic and Victorian Literature This MA pathway is particularly concerned with exploring the interface between Romantic and Victorian literature. It allows you to maintain your interest in these two key periods of English literature by moving across them rather than being restricted by rigid boundaries. The course is intended to encourage you to make connections and comparisons and to approach literature through a range of genres and forms (poetic, dramatic, novelistic, historical, theoretical, filmic). We will make full use of the university’s regional location, with one module involving a “field trip” to the Lakes.


Arts and Social Sciences 53


Dr Andrew Tate


Lecturer in Department of English and Creative Writing


Dr Tate’s research focuses on the relationship between literature, theology and theory from the nineteenth- century to the present. He has published two monographs and many book chapters and journal articles in this field and he is currently working on a study of biblical narrative and the twenty-first century imagination.


“The Department of English and Creative Writing has a vibrant and diverse culture, bringing together critical and creative traditions. Our weekly themed research seminar unites colleagues and students from a whole variety of research groups including Early Modern Literature, Romanticism and the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Contemporary Critical Theory. It gives them the opportunity to debate some of the vital issues in an ever changing discipline.”


“Research students benefit from regular work-in- progress sessions. In the last year, we have also started running twice-termly sessions open to the public called Literature Live at Lancaster that feature high profile writers such as Jim Crace, Sean O’Brien and Sarah Hall reading and discussing their work.”


“The Department is a truly collaborative place that supports individual research but challenges the idea that work in the Arts and Humanities is an utterly solitary pursuit.”


English and Creative Writing


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