Summer Term Courses: Literature

English Novels Between the Wars 8 GI-09-208
John Emerson BA MA Tuesday 27 April, 11 May, 25 May
15 June, 29 June, 13 July

6 meetings, fortnightly

2.00pm to 4.00pm £60, Concessions £54
In 1924 Virginia Woolf wrote that "on or about December 1910, human character
changed.... All human relations have shifted....and when [they] change there is at
the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature". Six novels will
be discussed during the course illustrating some of the different ways in which literature changed.
Tuesday 27 April The Good Soldier
Ford Maddox Ford
Tuesday 11 May Women in Love
D H Lawrence
Tuesday 25 May A Passage to India
E M Forster
Tuesday 15 June To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
Tuesday 29 June Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Tuesday 13 July Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
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