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Approaches to the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914)

When you'll study it
Semester 1
CATS points
30
ECTS points
15
Level
Level 7
Module lead
Matthew Kerr
Academic year
2025-26

Module overview

This core module for the MA English Literary Studies (Nineteenth-Century) pathway, taught by all those contributing to the pathway in a given year, will introduce students to the key critical, theoretical, historiographical and conceptual debates surrounding the study of the long nineteenth century. It will emphasise the issues which have been central to the emergence and revision of key areas of scholarship on the period over the last quarter century, and to effective methods for archival research.