Studies in the major literature of British, Irish, and London-based writers of the period 1900-1940. The course will be centrally concerned with the stages of a developing modernism: the feminist, realist, and impressionist fiction-writers of the Edwardian period; the Imagist and Vorticist avant-gardes of the 1910s; the flowering of “High Modernism” in the 1920s; the social satire of the politicized 1930s. Writers may include Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W. B. Yeats, and T. S. Eliot. Spring (Group III)