So UKIP fever swept the nation at the same time that Michael Gove made clear the syllabus for GCSE English literature. Out go the foreigners! Or so the message seems. Some hasty press releases explained that the curriculum had, in fact, been released last November (true) and that 19th century novels could be from “any country”; however, the fine print does suggest that there are qualifiers here.
All literature studied in the upcoming GCSE curriculum must be published in English first, which rules out a whole world of translated literature. Moreover, anything post-1914 must be written by an author from the British Isles.
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