American and English Literature | Bachelor's degree | Humanities & Culture | On Campus | 4 years | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom

You’ll study literature from a global perspective, exploring a wide range of genres—novels, poetry, film, and even comic books— and gain a detailed knowledge of the American and English literary traditions. You’ll get to grips with issues relating to race, gender and civil liberties in America. You’ll study how authors have simultaneously documented the ‘American experience’ while offering critiques of American power. In doing so, you’ll gain an understanding of the major cultural and historical ideas that have shaped American literature from the pre-colonial era to the present day. You will develop an understanding of the Transatlantic relationship, and the way that American and English literature have developed in close conversation with each other over the last few centuries.