Literature and Languages
Undergraduate Applicants
Your Own Dissertation
The English degree concludes with a final year dissertation, (about 15,000 words long) supervised one-to-one with a member of staff, on a topic of your own choice. This is a really attractive feature for many of our applicants and the best work is outstanding. It is also a major skill, as the ability to research and present work at this level can be transferred to any task in your future career.
Recent topics include:
- A Clockwork Orange and Blade Runner: Subversion in Dystopian Fiction
- Comparison of early Gothic Novels with Mid-Twentieth Century Science Fiction novels
- Scottish Crime Fiction: A Comparison of Social and Political Comment
- Postcolonial Women's Identity
- Gender in Women's Magazines: A Feminist Analysis
- The Role of the Fool in Shakespeare's Drama
- The Life and Works of Jean Rhys
- An analysis of the Primeval in Selected Works of Ted Hughes
- Power and Subversion in Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
- An exploration of Monstrosity in Victorian Literature