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.