约克大学 · 维多利亚文学与文化文学硕士 硕士

📖 项目简介

You'll have the opportunity to study the cultural meaning and associations of the variety of styles and genres in which Victorian literature was produced. You'll develop an understanding of the engagement of Victorian literature with a range of political, social and aesthetic issues in the period, and different critical perspectives on Victorian literature. Your option modules allow for more specialised study of particular issues relevant to the study of nineteenth-century literature and its historical, social and political contexts.

• Modules
• Dissertation

The core module surveys the major literary and cultural developments in the period and the central preoccupations of Victorian writing, as formulated by contemporaries and by recent critics and theorists. It introduces you to key thematic areas and problems in the interpretation of nineteenth-century literature across a broad range of genres. On the Postgraduate Life in Practice module, you'll learn valuable skills in research, writing, reflection, presentation, publishing and career development.

• Questioning the Victorians: Texts, Contexts and Afterlives
• Postgraduate Life in Practice

You will also study three option modules. Examples can be found below. Some option module combinations may not be possible. The options available to you will be confirmed after you begin your course.

• Questioning the Victorians: Texts, Contexts and Afterlives
• The Translation of the World: Reading the Global Nineteenth Century
• Literature, Medicine, and Metropolis, 1785-1850
• Representing the City, 1750-1850
• Reading Modernity
• Can the Madwoman Escape the Attic? Race, Slavery, & Nineteenth-Century Fiction
• Four Nations of British Poetry: 1845-1940

Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.

• Dissertation

Your dissertation offers you the chance to examine a topic in depth and to develop your research skills. In the summer semester and over the vacation, you'll work on a 12,000-14,000-word dissertation with regular supervision from a member of staff. You'll then submit your dissertation in September.

Previous topics have included:

• Women's Speech and Silence in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton (1848), Ruth (1853), and North and South (1855)
• Fictions of War: Addressing the Presence of the Napoleonic Wars in the Novels of Great Britain and Ireland, 1815-1820
• James and Jim: Decolonising the American Literary Canon, in Percival Everett's James (2024) and Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
• Monstrosity, Morality and Malady: Disability, Queerness and Womanhood in JS Le Fanu's Carmilla and Bram Stoker's Dracula

Every course at York is built on a distinctive set of learning outcomes. These will give you a clear understanding of what you will be able to accomplish at the end of the course and help you explain what you can offer employers. Our academics identify the knowledge, skills, and experiences you'll need upon graduation and then design the course to get you there.

• Analyse significant literary and cultural texts from the Victorian period closely and critically, interpreting them with reference to the social, political, economic and/or aesthetic contexts in which they were produced, reproduced, and received.
• Evaluate and contribute to scholarly debates around Victorian literature, including its history, inheritances, legacies, relation to socio-economic conditions, conceptions of authorship and textuality.
• Deploy knowledge of specialist fields within the broader remit of Victorian literature and culture – for example the fiction of Charles Dickens, French and English poetry in conversation, cultures of life writing, Henry James, religion and rebellion in the 1840s, poetry and the visual arts – in order to ask and answer innovative questions regarding the origins, contexts, and underlying conditions of the Victorian world.
• Initiate, conduct, and tak

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✨ 项目特色

You’ll work with world‐leading academics who’ll challenge you to think independently and excel in all that you do. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace.

You'll normally attend two 2-hour seminars each week during the Autumn and Spring Terms. If you are a part-time student you'll attend one 2-hour seminar a week during the Autumn and Spring Terms of Year 1 and Year 2.

Seminar groups consist of fewer than 16 students in most modules, though some core modules may involve a larger number of students. You'll complete essential reading for each seminar, and we encourage you to read more widely around the topic.

You'll attend a series of training lectures and workshops, designed to address presenting your work, writing at MA level, transferable skills, and career development.

Over the course of the year, you'll have the opportunity to attend research seminars and conferences hosted by the Department. You can also attend events organised through the Humanities Research Centre , a stimulating community unique to York.

You can make use of our dedicated study spaces, including the F.R. Leavis Room and the Writing lab, to work, collaborate and socialise in.

York's library contains a rich variety of resources available to you. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Poetry Society collection
• Music and audiovisual collections
• Humanities Research collections

🎯 入学要求

You will need to submit examples of written work with your application. Please see our guidance on submitting written work .

If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:

For more information see our postgraduate English language requirements .

You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses . These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.

The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.

After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York .

You can apply and send all your documentation online. You don’t need to complete your application all at once: you can start it, save it and finish it later.

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