ObjectivesResearch-track training towards a PhD. Interdisciplinary study of the nineteenth century.
Entry requirementsEntry/language requirements At least 2:1 or international equivalent in a first degree in English, or a combined degree including a substantial element of English. If English is not your first language, we normally require an overall IELTS score of at least 7.5, normally with at least 7 in each component. For TOEFL we normally expect a minimum score of 630, with a Test of Written English score of 5. Applicants who have taken the computer-based TOEFL test must normally achieve an overall score of 267 with an essay-writing score of at least 5. The TOEFL IBT test score has to be 113 or above.
Academic titleMA Nineteenth Century Studies (Research Track)
Course descriptionCourse content
Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Studies, Research Methods and Practice module plus 60 credits and 15,000-word dissertation.
Modules in the English department:
-Interdisciplinary Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Studies (core)
-Victorian Medievalism
-Research Methods and Practice
-The Rise of The Gothic, 1790–1890
-Romantic Ireland
-The City in 19th-century English Literature
-Archive Use and Methodology
-Literary Language from Romanticism to Modernism.
Modules in other departments:
-Nineteenth-century German Literature
-Hegel and his Critics
-The Fin-de-Siècle
-Ballads, Broadsides and Cartoons: The Firth Collection in Sheffield.
15-credit modules:
-Discovering Rural England, 1870–1920
-History and the Victorians
-Union Man: Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War
-The Chartist Challenge
-The Advent of Socialism in Britain, 1880–1900.