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English 137N - Fall, 2012
British Literature 1900-1945
Class Information
Instructor:
Williamson, Alan B.
CRN:
43446
Time:
TR 9:00-10:20
Location:
106 Olson
Description
In the early decades of the Twentieth Century, a group of writers and intellectuals lived in or near the London district of Bloomsbury. They were particularly concerned with the moral consequences of advanced capitalism and the First World War, and with how intellectuals could "connect," in E. M. Forster's phrase, with the rest of society. They would have an enormous influence on literary Modernism, the visual and decorative arts, and even economics and the rise of feminism. We will read literary masterworks by E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, T. S. Eliot, and D. H. Lawrence; and study the personal relationships between them and, to a lesser extent, Bloomsbury's influence in other fields.
Grading
short explication paper, longer research paper, final exam.
Texts
Howards End
, E. M. Forster
Mrs. Dalloway
, Virginia Woolf
Stories
, Katherine Mansfield
The Waste Land and Other Poems
, T. S. Eliot
Women in Love
, D. H. Lawrence