ENGL 349 - Late Imperial Fiction

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University of Richmond

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Late 19th- and early 20th-century British fiction and culture in the decades before decolonization. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: This is a course about modernism that focuses on a range of novels, some of them fully canonized, all of them centered on what was surely the main item of concern among British intellectuals during the first half of the century, namely, the fate of Empire in a rapidly changing world. We consider how fiction participated in this discussion by reimagining relations between England, the inner colonies of the Celtic Fringe, the Victorian colonies of India and South Asia, emergent colonies in Africa, and the fringes of imperial interest in South America. The special interest of this fiction was establishing rules of engagement between self-identified Englishmen and Englishwomen, immigrants such as the Pole Joseph Conrad and the West Indian C.L.R. James, and colonial populations increasingly well-versed in English language, literature, and culture. By concentrating our attention on the relationship between intellectuals, both colonizer and colonized, we may acquire a clearer sense of how the era of high imperialism transformed into the age of globalization in which we live. We also gain an understanding of what modernism was, what it did in the world, and why it still matters to readers of literature worldwide. Writers may include Olive Schreiner, Rabindranath Tagore, Elizabeth Bowen, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, R.K. Narayan, and Graham Greene.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.richmond.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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