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Part I: The 1920s and the Bright Young Things
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Sep
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5
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Introduction: What is Intermodernism? or, Getting beyond
Eliot and the Auden Generation
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Sep
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12
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Agatha Christie, Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926)
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F. R. Leavis, from Mass Civilization and Minority Culture
(1930) pp. 16-25 in History in Our Hands
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Sep
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19
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Evelyn Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930) read at least ˝ of
book
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Deane, “Introduction” (1-15) in History
in Our Hands
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Sep
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26
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Waugh, Vile Bodies (1930) finish
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Paper #1 due
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Oct
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3
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Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper (1936)
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W. B. Yeats, from The Oxford Book of Modern Verse
(1936) pp. 51-53 in History in Our Hands
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Part II: The 1930s and the Question of Commitment
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Oct
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10
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John Grierson (with W. H. Auden and Benjamin Britten), Night
Mail (1936) or Drifters (1929)
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Mass-Observation: from Britain by Mass-Observation
(1939) pp. 289-300, John Grierson, “First Principles of
Documentary” (1932-3) pp. 301-10, Arthur Elton, “Realist Films
Today (1937) pp. 319-23, Arthur Calder-Marshall, “The Film
Industry,” (1937) pp. 324-36 in History in Our Hands.
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Oct
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17
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George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)
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Victor Gollancz, “Foreword” to Wigan Pier
(1937) pp.ix –xxii in Wigan Pier and Storm Jameson, “New
Documents” (1937) pp. 311-18 in History in Our Hands
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Part III: The 1940s and the Literature of War
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Oct
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24
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Richard Hillary, The Last Enemy (1942)
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Virginia Woolf, from Three Guineas (1938) pp.
264-71 in History in Our Hands
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Oct
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31
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Elizabeth Bowen, short stories (xerox or pdf)
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Paper #2 due
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Nov
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7
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Phyllis Bottome, The Mortal Storm (1942) at least
˝ of book
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Winifred Holtby, “Black Words for Women Only ”
(1934) pp. 337-44 in History in Our Hands
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Nov
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14
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Bottome, The Mortal Storm (1942) finish
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Q. D. Leavis, from Fiction and the Reading Public
(1932) pp. 174-82 in History in Our Hands
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Nov
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21
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No Class: Friday Classes Meet. Final paper
topics and working bibliographies due via email attachment
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Part IV: The 1950s and the End of Empire
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Nov
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28
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Olivia Manning, School for Love (1953) read at
least ˝ of book
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Dec
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5
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Manning, School for Love (1953) finish
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Dec
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12
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Presentations of Final Projects/Papers Due!
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