MA Modern Literature & Culture at King's College London

Encounter a broad range of nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture from Britain, North America and the English-speaking world. This course gives you an opportunity to study an eclectic array of texts and topics - including Victorian Studies and Modernism - and to think across the period boundaries that restrict other courses. Our optional modules cover almost every aspect of modern literature and culture: from the Victorian novel and Modernist poetics to early science fiction and postcolonial life writing.

Faculty: Faculty of Arts & Humanities  |  Department: Department of English  |  Duration: One year full-time, September to September, two years part-time  |  Study mode: full-time / part-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: London, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

This Modern Literature and Culture MA presents a rare opportunity to study the literature and culture of both the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. You’ll strengthen your knowledge of canonical nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Henry James, W.E.B. DuBois, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys alongside lesser-known authors and movements.

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