ENGL 366(S) Modern British Fiction

This course will focus on British and Irish novels and short stories between the 1890s and 1941. We will study the emergence of the innovative stylistic and narrative forms and methods characteristic of Modernism, and consider the ways in which these innovations embodied both rejections of and reinflections of the concerns of the later nineteenth-century tradition, and the ways in which they reflected and affected twentieth-century writers' abilities to address questions of history, politics, sexuality, nationality, epistemology and aesthetics. Readings will include works such as Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray, short fiction by Henry James and Katherine Mansfield, Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim, D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, James Joyce's Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, E. M. Forster's Howards End, and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse and Between the Acts. Requirements: two papers (totalling 14 pages), regular journal entries or postings, and a final exam. Prerequisite: English 101. Enrollment limited to 25.

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