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