Tutorials in English Language and Literature
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.
Students taking English language and literature tutorials will read only texts which were written originally in English (though this does not mean only British English as there are opportunities to study English texts from Anglophone north America, the Caribbean, etc). Students wanting to read texts by non Anglophone authors should consult the modern languages tutorial lists, being aware that they must be able to read the texts there in the original language, not in translation. The exception to this rule is that English students may study Old English and Old Norse without previous experience, and they will be helped to become competent enough to study literature in Anglo Saxon and Old Norse in the original.
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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)
