FROM THE JAZZ AGE TO THE HUNGRY YEARS
INTERWAR LITERATURE, 1919 - 1939

This course focuses on the literature (novels, stories, poetry, essays and magazines) that emerged in the period between the two World Wars. We will look at writers' responses to the Great War, the Crash, the Spanish Civil War and the rise of Hitler in Germany. We will also see what they've got to say about Freud, flappers, technology, the city, jazz, modern art and the cinema. There will be a special focus on what Gertrude Stein called the 'The Lost Generation' - American writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway who lived and worked in Paris in the 1920's.

In order to pass this course, students must pass 60 % (in total) of the following assessment tasks:

1 x Oral Seminar presentation (10% of mark)

1 x 2000 word write up of seminar presentation (30% of mark)

1 x 3500 word major essay (60% of mark)

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)

Katherine Mansfield, Bliss and Other Stories (1922)

Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1925)

D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

Elizabeth Bowen, The Last September (1929)

George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia (1938)

Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (1939)

Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas (1939)

Course reader (including writers such as e.e. cummings, W.H. Auden, William Faulkner, Cyril Connolly)