维多利亚时代的文学作品提供了多种风格，主题和思想观念。这个多元而充满活力的文学领域反映出一个时期，见证了几乎每个存在领域的快速变化。狄更斯，艾略特，布朗特姐妹，史蒂文森，坦尼森，勃朗宁和克里斯蒂娜·罗塞蒂（Christina Rossetti）等作家利用他们的作品探索了从宗教到性欲，进化到帝国主义，大众文化到唯美主义等主题的新发展。该计划为您提供了在所选区域内进行大量有监督的独立研究的机会。我们是世界上最古老的英语文学系，在上一次研究评估练习中，其研究评级被评为5A。我们拥有该地区最大的研究生课程之一，并
The literature of the Victorian era offers an extraordinary range of styles, themes and intellectual ideas. This diverse and dynamic literary field reflects a period which witnessed rapid change in almost every area of existence. Writers such as Dickens, Eliot, the Brontë sisters, Stevenson, Tennyson, Browning, and Christina Rossetti used their work to explore new developments in topics that ranged from religion to sexuality, evolution to imperialism, and mass culture to aestheticism. This programme offers you the opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of supervised independent research in your chosen area. We are the oldest department of English Literature in the world, and at the last Research Assessment Exercise were awarded the highest research rating possible, of 5A. We have one of the largest graduate programmes in this area in the country and a rich research culture covering all aspects of literatures in English. We offer supervision in all areas of Victorian literature, and have particular strengths in social, historical and philosophical approaches to literature, in gender studies, and in the literary culture of the fin de siecle. The research of staff has made valuable contributions to the areas of literature and philosophy, modernism/postmodernism, medieval and early modern literature, history of the book, romanticism, transatlantic studies and performance studies. English Literature houses the Centre for the History of the Book and is one of the UK's leading forces in this area. It works closely with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and with the National Library of Scotland. The latter's recently acquired Murray Archive is crucial for studies in Romanticism, Book History, Bibliography and Archive Studies.