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Tutorials in English Language and Literature

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ENGLISH IS ONE OF THE LARGEST and most vibrant faculties at Oxford. Students studying English have the chance to take tutorials in a wide variety of specialist subfields, hear lectures by some of the discipline’s foremost scholars, and use excellent library facilities. Students can also become literary tourists, visiting the homes of authors as varied as Shakespeare, Thomas Hardy, the Brontë sisters, Robert Burns, and William Wordsworth, and seeing the places which inspired their work.

 

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Tutorial list

Beowulf and its Cultural Background

Chaucer, Langland, and Gower

Creative Writing (secondary tutorial only)

CS Lewis in Context

English Literature, 1100–1509

English Literature, 1509–1642

English Literature, 1642–1740

English Literature, 1740–1832

Linguistic Theory

Literature in English, 600–1100

Literature in English, 1100–1530

Modern Literature (1900 to the present day)

Old English Literature

Old Norse

Shakespeare

Special Authors

Textual Criticism

The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England

The History, Use, and Theory of the English Language

Victorian Literature (1832–1900)