ENG 413 Modernist London

This seminar explores the major literary trends and networks of experimental writing centered around London in the early twentieth century. Students consider the aesthetic doctrines and practices of modernist authors, examining how the diverse styles of the avant garde were impacted by questions of place amid urbanization and globalization. How did the lived reality of London in the 1910s and 1920s, for example, help writers reimagine the city's representation in literature? How does London - as one capital city of the modernist movement - interact with other metropolises of modernity where literature and the arts flourished? In what ways are ideas of place and environment impacted by expatriation? Authors assigned may include T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, T.E. Hulme, and Mina Loy.

Cross Listed Courses

ENG 413 & ENG 813