ENGL 3545

Migrant, Muggle, Hobbit, Spy: English Literature from Blitz to Brexit

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

What does it mean to write after the aesthetic breakthroughs of modernism, after the devastation of WWII, and during the "twilight" of the British empire? This class will introduce students to English literature from 1940 to the present, investigating how novels (both "genre" and "high literary"), poems, and comics have taken on new voices through their encounter with vast cultural and political changes. Beginning with Woolf's final novel, a cavalcade of English culture written in the shadow of war, we will proceed to study authors who explored the state of the nation through kitchen-sink realism, multicultural collage, and warped fantasy: Sam Selvon, Angela Carter, Philip Larkin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Alan Moore, J.K. Rowling, and others.

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (CA-AS)

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