Early Twentieth-Century Fiction

A study of fiction written from 1900 to the end of World War II. The course willinclude a consideration of how twentieth century fiction responds to and rewritesearlier realist conventions and Victorian norms; it may thus include some fictionfrom before 1900. Topics may include stream of consciousness and experimentalforms; the World Wars; colonialism, anti-colonial struggle, and changes in racialdefinitions; the women’s rights movement. Writers may include Willa Cather, William Faulkner, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, Henry James, James Joyce, Nella Larsen, D.H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield,George Orwell, Gertrude Stein, Sui Sin Far, Jean Toomer, and Virginia Woolf.

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