The English Literature degree at LondonMet allows students to investigate and develop their critical and creative interests in the major literary genres of prose, poetry and drama and provides an in-depth historical context for their study. The focus of the degree is on 19th, 20th and 21st century literature, and the course also offers opportunities to study literature written in the time of Shakespeare and in the later 17th and 18th centuries.English Literature students will be able to collaborate with Creative Writing and Education Studies students and during the course of their degree will encounter such diverse topics as hypertext publishing, Restoration diarists and the adaptation of novels for stage and screen. Modules are typically taught via lectures and seminars and include a wide variety of asseThe degree begins with a year’s study of the development and history of the three major genres of prose, poetry and drama. We consider how the genres emerged, were first understood and how they have changed over time. You will read major and canonical works in each genre and acquire a vocabulary for their analysis. You will also become familiar with criticism of each genre. Accompanying these three modules is a fourth course, Romantics to Victorians, that places 18th and 19th century cultural developments in their social, political and philosophical contexts. ssments, including essays, creative writing options and group presentations.