British and Irish Literature from 1900 to the Present

3 credits · Undergraduate

A study of the changing forms of poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to the major events and shifting political and cultural landscapes of Britain and Ireland since 1900. Areas of focus will vary, but may include feminism, the modernist revolution in the arts, the World Wars, Irish independence, and the decline of British imperial rule and its long aftermath. Authors may include, for example, Shaw, Yeats, Sassoon, Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Orwell, Beckett, Larkin, Kureishi, Selvon, and Carter.