Course Director

Professor Mark Knights

This interdiciplinary MA draws on options from the Departments of History, English and History of Art. It examines new approaches to major themes on eighteenth-century Britain, Europe and the wider world: enlightenment, consumption and luxury, gender, the middling classes, culture and commerce, material culture, global history, political radicalism and scientific and medical culture.

The MA is closely connected to the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre; students share in the Centre's lively seminar programme as well as workshops and conferences. Students may also find much of interest in the activities of the Global History and Culture Centre, since the eighteenth century is one for which a global perspective becomes increasingly important.

Additional modules may be available. Please check our website below for the most up to date information.

The Programme:

• Core Module (Term 1): Consumption and Culture in the Eighteenth-Century
• Historical Research Core Module: Theory, Skill and Method
• One Optional Module (Term 2): Please see Optional Modules Available
• Dissertation (20,000 words)

Optional Modules Available:

• Politics and Opinion in Hanoverian Britain
  Tutor: Dr Sarah Richardson
• Medicine and Science in the Enlightenment
  Tutor: Dr Claudia Stein
• Corruption: Concept and Practice in Britain and its Empire, c.1600-1835
  Tutor: Professor Mark Knights 
• Casta Painting: Art, Race and Identity in Colonial Mexico
  Tutor: Professor Rebecca Earle

Outside Option List

From the English Department:

• Literature, Revolution and Print Cultue in the 1790s
  Tutor: Professor Jon Mee

From the History of Art Department:

• Exhibitions and Audiences in Georgian London
  Tutor: Dr Rosie Dias

Information on modules which might be available on 2012/13 will be published as soon as possible; to see which modules were on offer in 2011/2012, please click here.

Please note: Not all modules may be available every year.

Whether a proposed module runs or not is subject to student demand. Insufficient student numbers may mean students are asked to transfer course modules.

For a list of modules run in previous academic years please see our archive.

How to Apply:

To apply for the MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies you can do so via the University's Online Application Form

For more information on Admissions in general please see the History Admissions page.