Shocking Innovation: British and American Literature 1900-1945
15 credits
Reading list, Master's level, 5EN416
A revised version of the reading list is available.
Main group 1
- Armstrong, Tim, Modernism: a cultural history, Cambridge, Polity, 2005
- Barnes, Djuna, Nightwood
- Conrad, Joseph, The Secret Agent
- Crane, Hart, The Complete Poems
- Dos Passos, John, Manhattan transfer, Harmondsworth, Penguin books, 1986
- Eliot, T.S., Collected Poems
- Eliot, T. S., The waste land: authoritative text, contexts, criticism, New York, W.W. Norton, 2001
- Faulkner, William, Absalom, Absalom!
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, Tender is the night, London, Penguin, 1997
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott, The great Gatsby, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Penguin, 1950, pr. 1966
- Ford, Ford Madox, The Good Soldier
- Forster, E.M., A Passage to India
- Gifford, Don.; Seidman, Robert J., Ulysses annotated: notes for James Joyce's Ulysses, 20th anniversary ed., Berkeley, Calif., University of California Press, 2008
- Hemingway, Ernest, The first forty-nine stories, New ed., repr., London, Cape, 1962, pr. 1975
- Hemingway, Ernest, A farewell to arms, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1970
- Hughes, Langston; Rampersad, Arnold; Roessel, David, The collected poems of Langston Hughes, 1st Vintage classics ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1995 (Selected poems - handout)
- Hurston, Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
- James, Henry, The Ambassadors
- Joyce, James; Gabler, Hans Walter, Ulysses, London, Vintage, 2008 (Students must have this or another printing of the Gabler edition)
- Joyce, James, Dubliners, Penguin, 1996
- Lewis, Wyndham, Tarr, Penguin
- Mansfield, Katherine; Davin, D. M., Selected stories, London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1969
- McKay, Claude, Home to Harlem, London, X Press, 2000
- Pound, Ezra, Collected Shorter Poems (Selected poems - handout)
- Rhys, Jean, Voyage in the dark, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1969
- Stein, Gertrude, Tender Buttons ObjectsFoodRooms
- Stein, Gertrude, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Vintage Books ed., New York, Vintage Books, 1990
- Stevens, Wallace, Collected Poetry
- Stevenson, Randall, Modernist fiction, Rev. ed., London, Prentice Hall, 1998
- Toomer, Jean, Cane
- West, Nathanael, Miss Lonelyhearts
- West, Nathanael, The day of the locust, London, Grey Walls Press, 1951
- West, Rebecca, The Return of the Soldier
- Woolf, Virginia, Mrs Dalloway., Repr., Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1972
- Yeats, W.B., Selected Poems