English Literature Summer School

The English Summer School – Part 1 will cover early English literature dating from 650 to Shakespeare, including Middle English, Medieval Literature, Chaucer and The Renaissance, We will also be introducing students to Historicist, Feminist, and Material Culture critical approaches as part of this Summer School.

The English Summer School – Part 2 will cover Romanticism and the Gothic Movement, the Rise of the Novel, and the Imperialist age and the development of Modernism. We will also be covering ‘Death of the Author’, and Post-Colonial theories as part of this Summer School.

The English Summer School – Part 3 will cover twentieth century and contemporary literature including post-modernism, literature and place, adaptation and inter-textuality and spoken word poetry. We will be covering psychoanalytic criticism, theories of the canon and political censorship as part of this Summer School.

Please note that students can attend any single individual Part of the Summer School, or all three, depending on their literary interests. Although the courses complement one another, they can also be treated as stand alone events and there is no requirement to have attended Part 1 in order to register for later Parts.

Thematic coverage by period, combining close study of texts with lectures on historical and cultural context, and setting major authors side-by-side with less familiar works, will help students to appreciate the development of prose, verse and drama in English from the middle ages to the present day.

We will not only engage in close textual analysis but also evaluate these movements in the light of the poets’ own critical writing. In drama, we will compare playscripts to film adaptations, read through sections of the works using different performance theories.

Literary theory and criticism will play an important role in each Summer School, and students will be invited to examine texts they have studied in the light of competing theories of the nature and value of literature and the role of the critic.

The tutors for the course range widely in their specialisms, from Medieval folk tales to Renaissance drama to contemporary criticism. This ensures that students will benefit from the broadest possible range of perspectives and approaches.

For full practical and booking details just scroll down past the reviews.

​The English Summer School – Part 1 will cover early English literature dating from 650 to Shakespeare, including Middle English, Medieval Literature, Chaucer and The Renaissance, We will also be introducing students to Historicist, Feminist, and Material Culture critical approaches as part of this Summer School.

The English Summer School – Part 2 will cover Romanticism and the Gothic Movement, the Rise of the Novel, and the Imperialist age and the development of Modernism. We will also be covering ‘Death of the Author’, and Post-Colonial theories as part of this Summer School.

The English Summer School – Part 3 will cover twentieth century and contemporary literature including post-modernism, literature and place, adaptation and inter-textuality and spoken word poetry. We will be covering psychoanalytic criticism, theories of the canon and political censorship as part of this Summer School.

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Please note that students can attend any single individual Part of the Summer School, or all three, depending on their literary interests. Although the courses complement one another, they can also be treated as stand alone events and there is no requirement to have attended Part 1 in order to register for later Parts.

Thematic coverage by period, combining close study of texts with lectures on historical and cultural context, and setting major authors side-by-side with less familiar works, will help students to appreciate the development of prose, verse and drama in English from the middle ages to the present day.

We will not only engage in close textual analysis but also evaluate these movements in the light of the poets’ own critical writing. In drama, we will compare playscripts to film adaptations, read through sections of the works using different performance theories.

Literary theory and criticism will play an important role in each Summer School, and students will be invited to examine texts they have studied in the light of competing theories of the nature and value of literature and the role of the critic.

The tutors for the course range widely in their specialisms, from Medieval folk tales to Renaissance drama to contemporary criticism. This ensures that students will benefit from the broadest possible range of perspectives and approaches.

For full practical and booking details just scroll down past the reviews.