MSc English Literature- Literature and Society- Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian in Edinburgh United Kingdom | The University of Edinburgh

This graduate program explores diverse literary subjects focused on 18th and 19th century British and Irish literature.

The two required seminar courses (one per semester) trace the evolution of prose and poetry genres within their intellectual, social, and political frameworks from the 1688 Glorious Revolution through the Victorian era. These centuries witnessed:

the Enlightenment's emergence of modern liberal social concepts
Romantic ideals of nationhood and historical identity
industrialization and global empire challenging these notions
The program's core curriculum investigates how novels and poetry both reflected and contested these transformative developments.