作为英国唯一专门供查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）使用的硕士课程，该课程在一个可能比世界其他地方提供更多狄更斯联想的地方研究作者。它通过必修模块结合了对本地和全球作者的关注，这些模块将狄更斯与他那个时代的社会，文化和政治问题进行互动的方式结合起来。采用跨学科的方法，以狄更斯为重点，考虑了19世纪小说与新闻，维多利亚时代人对物质文化的参与以及他们对身体及其隐喻的迷恋之间的关系。
As the only named coursework 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.The programme offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Victorian literature and culture. You will have the opportunity to study modules on Dickens, journalism and Victorian print culture with world-leading scholars in the field. You will also have the option of taking modules that examine how the Victorians approached issues such as sustainability, gender and the body, race, empire and colonial settlement, and transatlantic literary connections.<br><br>provide excellent postgraduate-level study that deepens and extends your understanding of work in the field of Dickens and Victorian culture.develop your understanding of, and engagement with, the critical and methodological paradigms that inform the field of studies in Dickens and Victorian culture.develop your research skills in the relevant field so as to provide a pathway for you to undertake PhD work in the area of Dickens and Victorian culture.build upon and extend an already-established reputation at Kent for distinction in the learning and teaching of Dickens and Victorian culture.<br><br>Many career paths can benefit from the writing and analytical skills that you develop as a postgraduate student in the School of English. Our students have gone on to work in academia, journalism, broadcasting and media, publishing, writing and teaching, as well as more general areas such as banking, marketing analysis and project management.