THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026

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English Literature

SCQF Level 07 (1 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
ENLI07001 Reading English Literature (Credit Plus) Not delivered this year 10

SCQF Level 08 (14 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
ENLI08003 English Literature 2 Not delivered this year 40
ENLI08012 English Literature 2 (VS1) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI08013 English Literature 2 (VS2) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI08020 SV1 Literary Studies 1A Semester 1 20
ENLI08021 SV1 Literary Studies 1B Semester 2 20
ENLI08024 SV1 Literary Studies 2A: English Literature in the World, 1380-1788 Semester 1 20
ENLI08025 SV1 Literary Studies 2B: English Literature in the World, post-1789 Semester 2 20
ENLI08016 Scottish Literature 1 Not delivered this year 40
ENLI08018 Scottish Literature 1 (VS2) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI08004 Scottish Literature 2 Not delivered this year 40
ENLI08022 SV1 Scottish Literature 2A Semester 1 20
ENLI08023 SV1 Scottish Literature 2B Semester 2 20
ENLI08014 Scottish Literature 2a (VS1) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI08015 Scottish Literature 2b (VS2) Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 10 (132 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
ENLI10249 SV1 'We are [not] Amused': Victorian Comic Literature Semester 2 20
ENLI10414 SS1 21st Century Black American Fiction Semester 2 20
ENLI10286 SV1 American Innocence Semester 2 20
ENLI10412 Beastly Writing: Animals, Literature, Modernity Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10341 SV1 Black American Fiction Semester 1 20
ENLI10110 SV1 Body in Literature Semester 1 20
ENLI10113 Celtic Revivals: Writing on the Periphery,1890-1939 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10357 Censorship Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10255 Charles Dickens Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10366 Cities of Literature: Metropolitan Modernities Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10096 SV1 Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America Semester 1 20
ENLI10413 Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10223 SV1 Contemporary British Drama Semester 2 20
ENLI10361 Contemporary Postcolonial Writing Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10381 SS1 Contemporary Science Fiction Semester 2 20
ENLI10280 SS1 Contemporary Scottish Fiction Semester 2 20
ENLI10115 SV1 Creative Writing Part 2: Prose Semester 2 20
ENLI10114 Creative Writing Part I: Poetry Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10210 SS1 Creative Writing Part I: Poetry Semester 1 20
ENLI10211 SS1 Creative Writing Part II: Prose Semester 2 20
ENLI10306 Critical Practice: Criticism Not delivered this year 10
ENLI10188 Critical Practice: Performance Not delivered this year 10
ENLI10187 Critical Practice: Poetry Not delivered this year 10
ENLI10112 Critical Practice: Prose Not delivered this year 10
ENLI10435 Cultural and Literary Text Analytics Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10387 SV1 Death and Dying in Late Medieval Literature Semester 2 20
ENLI10434 Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10206 Decolonization and the Novel Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10431 SS1 Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism Semester 2 20
ENLI10378 Digital Humanities for Literary Studies Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10298 Discourses of Desire: Sex, Gender, and the Sonnet Sequence in Tudor and Stuart England. Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10367 SV1 Early Modern Comedy Semester 2 20
ENLI10368 SV1 Early Modern Tragedy Semester 1 20
ENLI10310 SV1 Edinburgh in Fiction/Fiction in Edinburgh Semester 1 20
ENLI10420 SS1 Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind Semester 1 20
ENLI10329 SS1 English Literature Dissertation Full Year 40
ENLI10265 SS1 English Literature Long Essay (Modern European Languages) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 40
ENLI10274 Fairy Tales Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10433 Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10388 Fiction and Espionage Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10345 SV1 Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940 Semester 1 20
ENLI10194 Fictions of Other Britains: Race, Diaspora, Culture Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10174 Gender and Theatrical Representation Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10335 SV1 George Orwell and the Politics of Literature Semester 1 20
ENLI10389 Global LGBT Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10369 SS1 Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity Semester 1 20
ENLI10422 SS1 Great Victorian Novel Semester 1 20
ENLI10356 Green Thoughts: Landscape, Environment and Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10349 SV1 Haunted Imaginations: Scotland and the Supernatural' Semester 2 20
ENLI10191 Her Own Life? The politics of religion and the emergence of the female subject, 1650-1700. Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10083 SV1 Ideology and Literature Semester 1 20
ENLI10426 SS1 Illness and Disability in Modern and Contemporary Theatre Semester 1 20
ENLI10200 SS1 Joyce and Style Semester 1 20
ENLI10425 Literary Geography, 1800-1840 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10353 SS1 Literature and Medicine Research Project Full Year 40
ENLI10383 Literature, Reading, Mental Health Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10428 SV1 Literature, Revolution and Rebellion in the Long Nineteenth Century Semester 2 20
ENLI10355 Medicine in Literature 1: Illness Narratives through History Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10354 SS1 Medicine in Literature 2: Medical Ethics in Literature Semester 2 20
ENLI10221 Medieval Romance Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10327 Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10081 Metaphysics and Melancholy: Philosophy/Literature 1689-1764 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10370 SS1 Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose. Semester 1 20
ENLI10405 Modern Poetry: 1922-1927 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10201 Modern Scottish Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10410 Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10088 Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10338 Modernism and Empire Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10346 Modernism and the Market Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10371 Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10360 Modernism: Making It New Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10344 SS1 Modernism: Text, Image, Object Semester 1 20
ENLI10429 Mutable Bodies in Modern and Contemporary Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10207 SV1 Mystery and Horror Semester 1 20
ENLI10432 SS1 Narratives of Migration in Contemporary World Literature Semester 2 20
ENLI10120 Novel and the Collapse of Humanism Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10398 SS1 Paradise Lost Semester 2 20
ENLI10340 SS1 Poetry and Northern Ireland Semester 1 20
ENLI10407 Poetry and the English Question: Voice and Belonging in Modern and Contemporary Verse Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10202 SV1 Poetry, Politics and Place Semester 2 20
ENLI10178 Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10217 SS1 Postcolonial Writing Semester 2 20
ENLI10326 Queering Fictions in the Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10391 SV1 Reading Science Fiction Semester 2 20
ENLI10423 SS1 Reading Theory 1 Semester 1 20
ENLI10424 SS1 Reading Theory 2 Semester 2 20
ENLI10401 Reality Hunger: Image and Appetite in Contemporary Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10328 Republican Visions Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10427 SS1 Rethinking the Early Modern Book Semester 1 20
ENLI10336 Robert Burns and the Eighteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10373 SV1 Romanticism: Themes, Genres and Contexts Semester 2 20
ENLI10245 SV1 Saints and Sinners: Voicing Belief, Doubt, and Dissent in Medieval English Literature Semester 1 20
ENLI10419 Scottish Fiction 1880-1939 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10362 Sex and God in Victorian Poetry Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10333 Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10304 SV1 Shakespeare Adapted Semester 2 20
ENLI10279 SV1 Shakespeare's Comedies: Identity and Illusion Semester 1 20
ENLI10204 Shakespeare's Sister: Archival Research and the Politics of the Canon. Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10119 SV1 Shakespeare: Modes and Genres Semester 2 20
ENLI10133 SS1 Shakespearean Sexualities Semester 2 20
ENLI10430 Staging Enlightenment: Theatre 1660-1780 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10259 Stevenson and the End of the Nineteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10332 SS1 Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing Semester 2 20
ENLI10415 SS1 The American Novel 1970-2010 Semester 2 20
ENLI10099 SS1 The American Novel, 1920-1960 Semester 2 20
ENLI10183 SV1 The Black Atlantic Semester 2 20
ENLI10080 SV1 The Canterbury Tales Semester 1 20
ENLI10267 SV1 The Field Full of Folk Semester 1 20
ENLI10392 The Fourth Genre: The History and Theory of the Essay Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10380 SS1 The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art Semester 1 20
ENLI10273 The Long Summer: Edwardian Texts and Contexts, 1900-1910 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10351 SV1 The Making of Modern Fantasy Semester 2 20
ENLI10406 SV1 The Novel and the Modern Self, 1688--1790 Semester 2 20
ENLI10375 SS1 The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation Semester 1 20
ENLI10403 The Politics of Difficulty in Twentieth-Century Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10394 SS1 The Queer Eighteenth Century Semester 1 20
ENLI10315 The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10189 The Subject of Poetry: Marvell to Coleridge Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10334 The Victorians and the Past Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10409 Theatre, Performance, Performativity Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10421 SS1 Time and Space of Performance Semester 2 20
ENLI10079 Tragedy and Modernity Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10379 Twenty-First Century Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10376 Victorian Transatlanticism Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10330 Victorian and Edwardian City Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10417 Waste and Modernity: Dispatches from the Sewers of Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10399 Water and World Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10271 SV1 Working Class Representations Semester 1 20
ENLI10377 Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiments in Waywardness Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10296 Writing and Tyranny at the Court of Henry VIII Not delivered this year 20
ENLI10342 Writing for Theatre: An Introduction Not delivered this year 20
CLLC10007 The Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock Not delivered this year 20

SCQF Level 11 (110 courses)

Code Availability Course Name Period Credits
ENLI11272 SS1 21st Century Black American Fiction Semester 2 20
ENLI11134 Acts of Story-Telling: Narrator, Text, Audience Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11264 Beastly Writing: Animals, Literature, Modernity Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11158 Black American Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11023 Black Atlantic Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11195 SV1 Censorship (PG Version) Semester 1 20
ENLI11195 SV1 Censorship (PG Version) Semester 2 20
ENLI11072 SS1 Charles Dickens Semester 2 20
ENLI11208 Cities of Literature: Metropolitan Modernities (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11065 Cities of Words: 20th Century Urban America Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11265 Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11022 Contemporary American Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11148 Contemporary British Drama Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11210 Contemporary Postcolonial Writing (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11233 SS1 Contemporary Science Fiction (PG Version) Semester 2 20
ENLI11061 SS1 Contemporary Scottish Fiction Semester 2 20
ENLI11026 SS1 Creative Writing Core Course 1 Semester 1 40
ENLI11027 SS1 Creative Writing Core Course 2 Semester 2 40
ENLI11101 Critical Theory: Issues and Debates Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11269 Cultural and Literary Text Analytics Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11258 Data Cultures: From Critical Theory to Digital Practice Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11281 Decadence, Dazzle, Dissent: Aestheticism and Cultural Politics in the Long Twentieth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11030 Decolonization and the Novel Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11211 Decolonization and the Novel (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11279 SS1 Desire and Writing: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Criticism Semester 2 20
ENLI11199 Digital Humanities for Literary Studies Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11246 Directions in European Theatre Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11268 SS1 Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind Semester 1 20
ENLI11140 SS1 Enlightenment and Romanticism 1688 - 1815 Semester 1 20
ENLI11200 SS1 Exploring the Novel Semester 2 20
ENLI11079 SS1 Fairy Tales Semester 1 20
ENLI11282 Fear and Fascination: Vampire Literature in the Long Nineteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11236 SS1 Fiction and Espionage Semester 2 20
ENLI11191 Fiction and the Gothic, 1840-1940 (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11160 George Orwell and the Politics of Literature (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11241 SS1 Global LGBT Fiction Semester 1 20
ENLI11212 SS1 Global Modernisms: Inter/National Responses to Modernity (PG Version) Semester 1 20
ENLI11274 SS1 Great Victorian Novel Semester 1 20
ENLI11193 Green Thoughts: Landscape, Environment and Literature (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11238 Ideology and Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11248 SS1 Illness Narratives through History (PG version) Semester 1 20
ENLI11067 SS1 Joyce and Style Semester 1 20
ENLI11276 SS1 Literary Geography, 1800-1840 Semester 1 20
ENLI11181 SS1 Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics Semester 1 20
ENLI11182 SS1 Literature and Modernity II: Late Modernism and Beyond Semester 2 20
ENLI11235 Literature, Reading, Mental Health (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11032 SS1 MSc Creative Writing Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
ENLI11096 SS1 MSc Literature and Modernity 1900-to the present Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
ENLI11174 SS1 MSc Literature and Society: Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
ENLI11196 SS1 MSc Playwriting Portfolio Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
ENLI11046 SS1 MSc by Research English Literature I Dissertation Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
ENLI11228 SS1 MSc by Research in English Literature II Dissertation (30K words) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 180
ENLI11257 SS1 Medical Ethics in Literature Semester 2 20
ENLI11122 Medieval Romance Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11213 SS1 Modern Love: Victorian Poetry and Prose (PG Version) Semester 1 20
ENLI11263 Modern Poetry: 1922-1927 (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11262 SS1 Modern and Contemporary Life-Writing (PG) Semester 2 20
ENLI11205 Modern and Contemporary Scottish Poetry (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11139 Modernism and Empire Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11102 Modernism before the War Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11214 Modernism, Myth, and Romance 1880-1940 (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11204 Modernism: Making It New (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11185 SS1 Modernism: Text, Image, Object (Level 11) Semester 1 20
ENLI11277 Mutable Bodies in Modern and Contemporary Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11074 Mystery and Horror Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11280 Narratives of Migration in Contemporary World Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11203 Outback, Outlaws and Outcasts: Antipodean literature and (un)settlement (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11249 SS1 Paradise Lost Semester 2 20
ENLI11052 Poet-Critics: the Style of Modern Poetry Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11151 SS1 Poetry and Northern Ireland Semester 1 20
ENLI11259 Poetry and the English Question: Voice and Belonging in Modern and Contemporary Verse Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11202 Poetry, Politics and Place (Level 11) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11038 Poor Things: Capitalism, Reification and 20th Century Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11007 SS1 Postcolonial Writing Semester 2 20
ENLI11255 SS1 Postcritique: From Theory to Practice Semester 1 20
ENLI11252 Reality Hunger: Image and Appetite in Contemporary Fiction Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11150 Representing Northern Ireland Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11231 Republican Visions (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11125 SS1 Research Methods and Problems in English Literature Semester 2 20
ENLI11275 SS1 Rethinking the Early Modern Book Semester 1 20
ENLI11141 SS1 Romanticism and Victorian Society 1815-1900 Semester 2 20
ENLI11270 Scottish Fiction 1880-1939 Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11149 SS1 Sex, Seduction and Sedition in Restoration Literature Semester 1 20
ENLI11154 Shakespeare Adapted Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11041 Shakespeare's Sister: Archival Research and the Politics of the Canon. Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11087 SS1 Shakespearean Sexualities Semester 2 20
ENLI11070 Stevenson and the End of the Nineteenth Century Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11138 SS1 Strangers to Ourselves: Post-war & Contemporary Writing Semester 2 20
ENLI11271 SS1 The American Novel 1970-2010 Semester 2 20
ENLI11146 SS1 The American Novel, 1920-1960 Semester 2 20
ENLI11178 SS1 The Craft of the Playwright I Semester 1 40
ENLI11177 SS1 The Craft of the Playwright II Semester 2 40
ENLI11230 The Graphic Novel: Narrative in Sequential Art (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11037 The Literary Absolute Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11077 SS1 The Long Summer: Edwardian Texts and Contexts, 1900-1910 Semester 1 20
ENLI11215 SS1 The Novel in the Romantic Period: Gender, Gothic, and the Nation (PG Version) Semester 1 20
ENLI11239 The Personal Essay: History and Theory Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11254 The Politics of Difficulty in Twentieth-Century Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11245 SS1 The Queer Eighteenth Century Semester 1 20
ENLI11126 SS1 The Reign of Terror: Fear and Loathing in Romantic Literature Semester 1 20
ENLI11136 The Victorians and the Past Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11176 SS1 Time and Space of Performance Semester 2 20
ENLI11152 Tragedy and Modernity Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11229 Twenty-First Century Fiction (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11216 Victorian Transatlanticism (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11267 Waste and Modernity: Dispatches from the Sewers of Literature Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11133 Working Class Representations Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11209 Writing Contemporary Femininities: Experiments in Waywardness (PG Version) Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11153 Writing and Tyranny at the Court of Henry VIII Not delivered this year 20
ENLI11278 Writing in/as Translation Not delivered this year 20
CLLC11194 Theatre Industry Practice and Research Not delivered this year 20
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
 
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