A study of British Poetry, Drama and Fiction written during the first half of the Twentieth Century. Class meetings will be devoted to close reading of the texts and lectures on the social and cultural context of assigned readings. Special attention will be paid to the critique of Victorianism, the literature of the First World War, and the aesthetics of Modernism.
Absence is acceptable only in the case of illness or a legitimate emergency.
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