Early Twentieth-Century Fiction

A study of fiction written from 1900 to the end of World War II. The course willinclude a consideration of how twentieth century fiction responds to and rewritesearlier realist conventions and Victorian norms; it may thus include some fictionfrom before 1900. Topics may include stream of consciousness and experimentalforms; the World Wars; colonialism, anti-colonial struggle, and changes in racialdefinitions; the women’s rights movement. Writers may include Willa Cather, William Faulkner, E.M.