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Dickens and Victorian
Culture MA
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Location: Canterbury
As the only named Master’s
programme within the UK
devoted to Charles Dickens,
this programme studies the author
in a place that perhaps offers
more Dickensian associations
than anywhere else in the world.
It combines a focus on both
the local and the global author
through compulsory modules,
contextualising the variety of ways
in which Dickens engaged with
the social, cultural and political
issues of his age. Interdisciplinary
approaches are employed, using
Dickens as a focus, to consider
the relationships between
19th-century fiction and
journalism, the Victorians’
engagement with material
culture, and their fascination
with the body and its metaphors.
Course content
• Compulsory modules
(two from): Dickens and the
Condition of England; Dickens
and the Material Culture of
the Victorian Novel; Dickens,
the Victorians and the Body
• Other modules may include:
Extremes of Feeling; Victorian
Sustainability. Additional wild
modules may also be available.
• Dissertation
Eighteenth-Century
Studies MA
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Taught jointly with: School of
European Culture and Languages
Locations: Canterbury;
Canterbury and Paris
It is possible to study this
programme either entirely in
Canterbury or split between
Canterbury and our Paris
School of Arts and Culture.
This interdisciplinary MA offers an
intellectually dynamic introduction
to one of the most exciting eras in
literary history. Grounded in and
administered from the Centre for
Studies in the Long Eighteenth
Century, it builds upon the
expertise and common research
interests of 18th-century
researchers and academics
across the Faculty of Humanities.
If you are on the split-site
Canterbury and Paris programme,
you spend your first term in
Canterbury, relocating to Paris for
the spring term, studying in the
heart of historic Montparnasse,
where you take Paris-focused
modules.
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Paris School of Arts and Culture,
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Course content
• Compulsory modules: Hacks,
Dunces and Scribblers; Jane
Austen and Material Culture
• Recommended modules may
include: Extremes of Feeling;
From Caxton to Kindle.
Additional wild modules
may also be available.
• Dissertation
English and American
Literature MA
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Locations: Canterbury;
Canterbury and Paris; Paris
It is possible to study this MA
either entirely in Canterbury or
Paris, or split between Canterbury
and Paris.
This programme allows you to
choose from the full range of our
MA literature modules. The list of
what is on offer is regularly added
to by academics keen to explore
new areas of thinking with
students and to draw you in
to our established areas of
research strength, such as
postcolonial studies, 18th-century
studies, modern poetry and
fiction, or Victorian studies. The
modules draw on different critical
approaches and focus on a range
of historical periods, ideas and
places from modern India to
post-war New York to literary
London in the 18th century.
If you are on the split-site
Canterbury and Paris programme,
you spend your first term in
Canterbury, moving to our Paris
School of Arts and Culture for
the spring term. Our centre in
Paris is based in the heart of
historic Montparnasse, an area
that has inspired many of the
greatest authors.
Those on the year-long Paris
programme take modules from
their own subject area alongside
optional modules inspired by Paris
and its unique cultural history.
For further information about the
Paris School of Arts and Culture,
please see p257.
Course content
Canterbury students choose from
modules which may include:
• American Modernism; Centres
and Edges; Colonial and
Postcolonial Discourses;
Extremes of Feeling; From
“Having become familiar
with the excellent academic
staff and resources available
at Kent, I wanted to continue
my postgraduate studies in
an environment that was
established in its academic
accomplishment, welcomed
innovative ideas and was
open to new projects.”
Claire Hurley
PhD English