Overview

About the programme

We specialize in material culture, periodical culture, travel-writing and literary tourism, the representation of vagrancy, slavery and slave-narratives, British and American fiction (especially historical fiction, women’s writing, and children’s literature), book history, and the interconnections between literature and music, empire and colonialism, war, and disability.

Our academics and research students work across and within a number of lively research groupings within and beyond English and Creative Writing, including HOBAR (History of Books, Authorship, and Reading), PGLRG (Post-colonial and Global Literatures Research Group), GOTH (Gender and Otherness in the Humanities), Literature and Music, and Digital Humanities.

We work with museums, libraries and archives across the UK and Europe to develop research impact and knowledge exchange, and we facilitate similar opportunities for our research students. This Romanticism and 19th Century Literature degree programme is offered at The Open University UK.

Programme Structure

Current/recent research projects:

Freethinkers, a novel and inventing history: how do research, imagination and memory fuse creatively in the writing of an historical novel?
Virginia Woolf: nineteenth-century legacies
Monomania: the life and death of a psychiatric idea in nineteenth-century fiction, 1836-1860
Yellowback fiction and the history of reading on the railways in the late 19th century
Fanny, Mary, Claire: uneasy sisterhood and the novella-in-flash

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months
Part-time
- 72 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

87

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Literature View 83 other PhDs in Literature in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

87

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Other requirements

General requirements

Entry requirements

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

12705 GBP / year

≈ 12705 GBP / year
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Citizens or residents

5006 GBP / year

≈ 5006 GBP / year

Living costs

Milton Keynes

United Kingdom

848 - 1345 GBP / month

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