英文和美国文学（荣誉）文学士学位-包括在国外学习的年份

国外一年。我们通过探索将美国文学确立为独特传统的经典文本来开始回答这些问题，并发现与之相关的问题，美国复杂的社会和文化在其小说，诗歌和诗歌中得到最好的体现。戏剧。埃塞克斯（Essex）一直是美国研究的主要中心，我们在文学，电影，艺术，历史和政治方面的专业知识使您能够了解和理解美国社会和美国梦的复杂性。您将探索民族主义和地区主义，以及种族，性别和宗教冲突，这些冲突是美国历史和文化的核心。通过这一发现，您发现了美国写作和美国身份演变中的深层联系。
Essex has always been a major centre for American Studies, and our expertise across literature, film, art, history and politics allows you to unravel and understand the complexities of US society and the American dream. You explore nationalism and regionalism, as well as conflicts of race, gender and religion at the heart of US history and culture. Through this you uncover the deep interconnections in the evolution of US writing and American identities.<br>Discover the literature of the USA from the early realism of Mark Twain and the slave narrative of Frederick Douglass, through the experimental work of Hemingway and Faulkner, to contemporary authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Toni Morrison. You also cover the English literary canon from Shakespeare and his contemporaries through to twentieth-century literature.<br>Your reading can take you beyond the US and Britain to the rest of the Americas and Europe, at Essex you don't just study English Literature, you study world literature in English.<br><br>A good literature degree opens many doors.<br>The number of careers that lead from courses in literature is almost as large as the number of graduates, but two particular areas in which our graduates have had recent success are publishing and the theatre. One of our former students is now in charge of editorial at a large publishing house, and another has just taken over running one of the country's major theatres.