ENG 2270 - Twentieth-Century British Literature

Credits: 4
This course surveys twentieth-century British literature and the social, cultural, and historical circumstances in which these works of literature were produced. This course will examine literary and cultural developments including the impact of Freudian thought, the impact of the two world wars, stream of consciousness, fragmentation, Angry Young Men, “The Movement,” imperial devolution, and the growing diversity of British literature. Authors include a selection from among the following: Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Stevie Smith, Phillip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Mark Haddon, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.