MSt in English (1830-1914) at University of Oxford

A nine-month full-time master's exploring nineteenth-century literature, cultural criticism, book history and aesthetics through core seminars, special options and a dissertation. It offers advanced literary study and can be a foundation for doctoral research.

Faculty: English Faculty  |  Duration: 9 months full-time  |  Intake: 5 October 2027  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Oxford, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Two core courses (Literature, Contexts and Approaches; Bibliography, Theories of Text, History of the Book and Manuscript Studies), two special option courses and a dissertation written under a specialist supervisor. Recent options have included Literary London 1820-1920, Literatures of Empire and Nation 1880-1935, Henry James and his Literary Legacies, Citizens of Nowhere: Literary Cosmopolitanism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, and The lure of the medieval in the Long Nineteenth Century.

Career pathways

Many graduates go on to doctoral research at Oxford and other universities worldwide; others pursue careers in teaching, journalism, law, publishing and the civil service.

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