The Twentieth-Century British and Irish Novel
English 4663/6663
Kelly Marsh
Fall 2008
T/Th 11:00
In this study of major British and Irish novelists of the twentieth century, we will read
- Howards End by E. M. Forster (Signet) (1910)
- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Penguin) (1916)
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Harcourt Brace) (1925)
- The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen (Anchor) (1929)
- The End of the Affair by Graham Greene (Penguin) (1951)
- The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien (Plume) (1960)
- Down Among the Women by Fay Weldon (Academy Chicago) (1972)
- Waterland by Graham Swift (Vintage) (1983)
- Atonement by Ian McEwan (Anchor) (2001)
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith (Penguin) (2005)
In addition to the reading, the requirements for this course are
- two exams,
- two ten-page research papers for undergraduates /
one article-length research paper for graduate students,
- and an annotated bibliography of critical material on one novel.