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233 Master's degrees in Literature in United Kingdom
Modern Literature and Culture
The Modern Literature and Culture course at King's College London gives you an opportunity to study an eclectic array of texts and topics – including Victorian Studies, Modernism and American Studies – and to think across the period boundaries that restrict other courses.
English and Comparative Literary Studies
We offer a wide range of research areas to choose from. Harness your intellectual ambitions, and study amongst a globally renowned network of experts on the University of Warwick MPhil/PhD in English and Comparative Literary Studies.

English Literature - American Modern Literature
The English Literature - American Modern Literature programme of the University of Glasgow focuses on the American Literature of the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The required courses range across fields and genres including art history, film, ecocriticism, sociology, urban studies, travel writing, and music.

English Literary Studies (Nineteenth Century)
Explore 19th century English literature in-depth with English Literary Studies (Nineteenth Century) MA course at the University of Southampton.

English Literature
There are many reasons to study literature in English at advanced level: to explore other periods and cultures; to develop your research and communication skills; to pursue career goals; or simply because you love reading. All are possible on this English Literature MA from University of Leicester, where you will work to develop your interests with internationally recognised experts.
Scriptwriting
The Scriptwriting program at Bath Spa University will help you to become a more adept scriptwriter, able to work across theatre, radio, film, and television. Along with a comprehensive training in key writing skills, you’ll develop your critical thinking, creative dexterity, and coherent strategies for professional progress.
Comparative Literature and Culture with Gaelic
Study literature from across the world and explore cultures and societies in and beyond the English-speaking world. Gain a global outlook while learning from experts in languages, literatures and culture.

Publishing Studies
The Publishing Studies MLitt course from University of Stirling covers the whole process of planning, editing, production, marketing and publication management in print and digital environments.
Highlands and Islands Literature
This Highlands and Islands Literature MLitt course from the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) allows you to study the writers and literatures of the Highlands and Islands, in the communities to which they belong.

Literature
The Literature degree from University of Essex has been offered supervision in all fields of staff research interest, which includes a wide range of expertise in different literatures and in varying approaches to literature, covering most aspects from early modern to modern writing in English and a number of other languages.
Children's Literature
The academic study of children’s literature has developed over the past 30 years, and is now a recognised multidisciplinary field of enquiry. This Children's Literature programme, offered by Goldsmiths, University of London, will enable you to explore the relationship between reader, writer, text and context, and consider the processes that underpin those interactions.

Medieval Literatures and Languages
This Medieval Literatures and Languages programme from University of York study the whole range of medieval English literature — a dynamic, multilingual literary culture in which English interacted with many other languages and literatures.

English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary)
Explore 20th century and contemporary English literature with English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century and Contemporary) MA course offered at the University of Southampton.
English Literature and Creative Writing
The English Literature and Creative Writing course of Cardiff Metropolitan University is a rewarding taught degree taught by published writers and researchers.

Portuguese
Pursue research you are passionate about. This Portuguese course from Newcastle University combines taught and research elements, allowing you to explore in depth a specific area of Portuguese studies such as linguistics, Latin American culture and politics, the Spanish novel, or Latin American film.

Contemporary Literature and Culture - Pre-Master's Programme
This one-year Contemporary Literature and Culture - Pre-Master's Programme from OnCampus Loughborough offers successful students guaranteed progression to Loughborough University.
Literary Studies
The Literary Studies MA degree from Aberystwyth University offers you a stimulating engagement with English literature in all its depth and diversity, with the opportunity to develop particular expertise in one of a number of specialist areas.

Victorian Gothic - History, Literature and Culture (Distance Learning)
Victorian Gothic - History, Literature and Culture (Distance Learning) from University of Portsmouth explores not just 19th-century Gothic cultures but, more generally, the fears, wonders, and dark imagination of the Victorian era.

English Language and Literature
The MA English Language and Literature degree offered at the University of Westminster will provide you with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives (theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic). The University of Westminster and its courses are located in London.
Religion and Literature
This Religion and Literature programme from The University of Edinburgh draws on the strengths of one of the most distinguished centres of religious and theological studies in the country. It offers deep and broad study of the relationship between all genres of literature and religious traditions, history, thought and practice.