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You'll already know, from your GCSE studies, some of the appeal of literature. You'll know that it can move you and make you more aware of your own and others' experience, and that it leads you to face some of the big moral and philosophical issues.

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https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/streetcar/

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https://www.rsc.org.uk/othello/

https://www.shakespeare.org.uk/explore-shakespeare/shakespedia/shakespeares-plays/othello-moor-venice/

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Why should I study this subject?
English Literature provides you with the opportunity to develop your interest and enjoyment in literary studies. You will explore challenging ideas, as expressed through poetry, prose and drama from different periods. You will be encouraged to develop your own responses to texts, considering other readers' interpretations, with a deepening appreciation of the significance of cultural and historical influences upon readers and writers. The course is of interest to anyone keen to find out about the way literature challenges conventional thinking in the field of human relationships and ideas.

What will I study ?
You will read independently set texts; engage critically and creatively with a substantial body of texts and ways of responding to them; develop and effectively apply your knowledge of literary analysis and evaluation; explore the contexts of the texts you are reading and others' interpretations of them and undertake independent and sustained studies to deepen your appreciation and understanding of English Literature, including its changing traditions.

Unit 1

Section A; Othello

Section B; A Streetcar Named Desire

Unit 2; You will compare two novels; ( Frankenstein and The Handmaid's Tale)

Unit 3: A set poem or genre alongside the modern poetry anthology

Section A: Comparison of a named poem from the anthology, with an unseen poem.

Section B: Selected poems of John Keats

Unit 4: Coursework

A comparison of 2 texts (free choice)
What are the entry requirements?
Please check this subject table for full details of our A Level entry requirements.
What is the exam board?
Edexcel

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Why should I study this subject? English Literature provides you with the opportunity to develop your interest and enjoyment in literary studies. You will explore challenging ideas, as expressed through poetry, prose and drama from different periods.

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Wakefield College Literature Course Overview

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Wakefield College Literature Course Overview

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Modules will include:

Love Through the Ages. Your reading will include a range of prose, poetry and drama from the Elizabethan era to the present day. This will include close reading of a Shakespeare play, a novel and an anthology of poetry.

Texts in Shared Contexts: Modern Times - Literature from 1945 to Present Day. Students study three texts, including one prose, one poetry and one drama, at least one of which must be written post-2000.

Texts Across Time. This is the Non-Examined Assessment unit which requires you to write a comparative critical study of two texts by different authors, written at different times.

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In the first year you will study texts within the "Love through the Ages" module, including a novel, an anthology of poetry and a Shakespeare play. In the second year you will study three texts for the module Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to Present Day, including a collection of poetry, a novel and a play.

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Videos and lectures from the British Library

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From wild and remote landscapes to vulnerable heroines; from violent and erotic fantasies to supernatural and uncanny happenings; Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries. How do these works reflect the political, social and cultural contexts in which they were written?

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From wild and remote landscapes to vulnerable heroines; from violent and erotic fantasies to supernatural and uncanny happenings; Gothic fiction has intrigued and unsettled readers for more than two centuries. How do these works reflect the political, social and cultural contexts in which they were written?

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Romanticism in literature

Romanticism in English literature started in the late eighteenth century, with the poets William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It continued into the nineteenth century with the second generation Romantic poets, most notably Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron.

In contrast to the reasoned detachment of the Enlightenment, the poetic works of Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge were characterised by their emotional sensitivity and reverence for nature.

Though the second generation of Romantic poets, especially Shelley and Byron, became notorious for their subversive and salacious works, later Romantic poetry also retained many characteristics established by Blake and Wordsworth. Keats' odes, much like the poetry of Wordsworth, took inspiration from nature, and Bryon's poetry had a strong introspective character.

Shelley, Byron and Keats also acquired a posthumous reputation as 'Romantic' because many aspects of their lives - including their travels around Europe and the fact they died young - conformed to the emerging nineteenth-century ideal-type of a Romantic hero.

Romanticism in art

Nature was also a source of inspiration in the visual arts of the Romantic Movement. Breaking with the longer tradition of historical and allegorical paintings, which took scenes from history or the Bible as their principle subject matter, Romantic artists like J. M. W. Turner and John Constable - as well as print-makers and engravers like Samuel Palmer and Thomas Bewick - chose instead to depict the natural world, most notably landscapes and maritime scenes.

Romantic artists depicted nature to be not only beautiful, but powerful, unpredictable and destructive. This constituted a radical departure from Enlightenment representations of the natural world as orderly and benign.

Romanticism in music

The Romantic Movement in music originated in Beethoven, whose later works drew upon and developed the classical styles of Mozart and Haydn. Beethoven's later symphonies and piano sonatas were made distinctive by their expressiveness and strong emotive quality. These characteristics set the tone for successive generations of Romantic composers in Europe, including Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn.

Romantic music was also highly innovative and technically adventurous. While virtuoso soloist Franz Liszt dazzled audiences in the great concert halls of Europe with his masterly performances and never-before-seen techniques, Polish-born prodigy Frédéric Chopin amazed Parisian salons with his expressive and emotionally complex piano pieces.

The Romantic period was also the 'golden age' of opera in Europe, with composers such as Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner combining music, lyrics and visual imagery to construct dramatic narratives which continue to captivate audiences today.

Romanticism as a mind-set

Romanticism may be best understood not as a movement, but as a mind-set. The artists, poets and musicians of the Romantic period were united by their determination to use their art to convey emotion or provoke an emotional response from audiences.

There was also something pioneering - almost revolutionary - about Romanticism. It involved breaking with the past, and consciously moving away from the ideas and traditions of the Enlightenment. In so doing, Romanticism fundamentally changed the prevailing attitudes toward nature, emotion, reason and even the individual.

Our Romantic places and collections

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Romanticism in English literature started in the late eighteenth century, with the poets William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It continued into the nineteenth century with the second generation Romantic poets, most notably Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Lord Byron.

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Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

The Great Gatsby

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

RC Sherriff - Journey's End

Tennesse Williams - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Arthur Miller - All My Sons

Tennesse Williams - A Streetcar Named Desire

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Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Bram Stoker - Dracula

Robert Louis Stevenson - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

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Jane Austen - Emma, Mansfield Park, Sense and Sensibility.

Mary Shelley - Frankenstein

The Poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Keats

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Hardy - Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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Specification AQA Literature A 7711/7712

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Specification AQA Literature A 7711/7712

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Specification AQA Literature B 7716/7717

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Specification AQA Literature B 7716/7717