ENL 4237 Fall 2020 Stilling

This course will examine a mosaic of modern British writers across a variety of forms and genres, including drama, lyric poetry, modernist literature, the novel, migrant literature, the verse novel, and film. The authors and topics we will study--George Bernard Shaw, World War I poetry, realist film, Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Samuel Selvon, Ken Loach, Bernardine Evaristo, Kamila Shamsie, and Carol Ann Duffy--each represent a different swath of British society. In each work, we will pay careful attention to matters of language, form, and genre as they intersect with issues of gender, race, class, nation affiliation, and sexual identity.