Hey, I studied literature at Durham which I really enjoyed, a lot of the special topics allow for flexibility in second and third year but less so in first, and there definitely could have been more diversity in terms of moving away from the canon. I would look out for modules with key words like postcolonialism and women in literature - tend to indicate a department with a diverse mindset, less rigid in their ways. The UEA (East Anglia) course is supposed to be pretty great, so I would definitely look into there