BA Hons English Literature

Literature builds worlds. It can change society. It affects how we think and inspires our dreams. To read literature is to gain understanding of the world around us; its history, its inequalities, its values, as well as the relationships between peoples and different places.On English Literature at Oxford Brookes, we ask the big questions that writers across the centuries have asked themselves. You’ll encounter the literary figures, ideas and movements that have shaped culture over centuries. Whether studying the Renaissance or contemporary literature, you’ll immerse yourself in texts and subject them to rigorous analysis.