English Literature/Philosophy

Course description

**ENGLISH LITERATURE**: - You will explore all aspects of literature in English, benefiting from our expertise in a wide range of areas, including American, Irish and postcolonial literatures, critical theory, creative writing, and the relationship between literature and other arts, media and science. You will benefit from access to the University’s world-class Hunterian collection and the Library’s Special Collections, with strengths in the 18th and 19th centuries, travel, illuminated manuscripts and significant single-author holdings.

**PHILOSOPHY**: - Philosophy is the systematic attempt to arrive at clear answers to profound questions about issues such as knowledge, life, morality, science and human nature using reason and argument. We host reading parties for students, usually in the Highlands, and have a flourishing undergraduate Philosophy Society.

Subjects

• Philosophy
• English literature
• English
• Literature
• Sixteenth-century literature
• Seventeenth-century literature
• Eighteenth-century literature
• Nineteenth-century literature
• American literature
• Comparative literature
• Literary criticism
• Critical theory
• Literary research
• Modern literature
• Poetry
• Literary studies
• Romantic literature
• Medieval English literature
• Shakespeare studies
• Ancient philosophy
• Ethics
• Metaphysics
• Religious studies
• Area studies, languages and literature
• Language
• Arthurian literature
• Childrens literature
• Classical literature
• Commonwealth literature
• Dramatic literature
• European literature
• Anglo-Saxon studies