English 305-001
Survey of English Literature: English Literature Since 1900
Instr: Nygaard, Nancy
Office: CRT 583; 229-4567
e-mail: nnygaard@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: MW; 9:30-10:45am; MIT B14
Course Description
This class examines British literature from the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 through the byways and superhighways of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Using an integrated approach we will strive to learn how the music, visual art, architecture, and history of these years affected, and continue to affect British life and literature.
The course readings will include:
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
- The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
- Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
- Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
- Down Among the Women by Fay Weldon
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Brick Lane by Monica Ali
- A course packet with poetry and critical readings
We will see some film versions and supporting documentaries to supplement our reading and class discussion about the shaping and reflective forces of literature on modern Britain.
There will be two exams, perhaps an occasional reading quiz, reading responses, and two papers.
