该学位使您可以同时学习美国和英国的文学传统。您将学到是什么使美国文学以及美国自身与众不同。您将了解美国人如何通过文学表达自己的认同感，并在此过程中定义自己的民族。诺里奇是学习英语文学的理想城市。它是联合国教科文组织文学之城，拥有丰富的遗产，并拥有活跃的当代写作场景。您还将在美国出国留学期间获得对美国文学的第一手鉴赏，或者选择在加拿大学习或在国外度过一个学期，从而选择进一步的比较维度在澳大利亚，新西兰或香港。所有这些经验将丰富您的最后一年，在此期间，您将参加一系列高级课程，并就所选主题撰写论文。
The Atlantic Ocean does not mark a barrier when it comes to literary traffic. In fact, it is impossible to understand British Literature in the modern period, or American Literature in any period, without knowing something of the other nation’s culture. At UEA, you’ll be able to focus on Anglo-American interchanges. You’ll also explore the many aspects of English and American literature which lie beyond that interchange, such as English Literature prior to the 19th century, and Native American and multi-ethnic writing. Under the tuition of our world-leading scholars of English Literature and American Studies, you will study the wealth of both countries’ literatures. Your studies will reach back to Chaucer, Julian of Norwich and beyond, and forwards to the likes of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ian McEwan and Ali Smith. You’ll study writers as different from one another as Walt Whitman and Sylvia Plath, Brett Easton Ellis and Edith Wharton. After a firm grounding in your first year, you’ll launch yourself into more specialist areas of study, like contemporary fiction, journalism or comics.