ENG 342 - Modern British Literature

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Lafayette College

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This course investigates various literary and cultural crises during the British modernist period. The fragmentation of traditional narrative and poetic style, a shift toward psychic interiority, and the alienation of the artist are all considered hallmarks of modernist literature. We wil contextualize such changges by asking how they are connected to the social and political crises of the age. Among our considerations will be how science and technology, evolutionary theory, the New Woman, and colonialism challenge traditional notions of what it means to be hman at the turn of the twentieth century. We will investigate these changes in texts by writers such as Joseph Conrad, E.M Forster, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in Literary History or permission of instructor Rohman

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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