ENGL 627: Genres: Modernist Fiction (fall 2010)
Explore ENGL 627: Genres: Modernist Fiction (Fall 2010) with a curated list of essential 2010 books on modernist genres in English literature. Dive into groundbreaking works and critical analyses.
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.
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Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one of the …
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The Secret Agent
by Joseph Conrad
'An impenetrable mystery seems destined to hang for ever over this act of madness or despair.'Mr Verloc, the secret agent, keeps a shop in London's …
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Quicksand and Passing
by Nella Larsen
Two novels of 1920s Harlem describe Helga Crane's search for freedom and personal expression, and Irene's friendship with Clare, who attempts to pass for white.
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The Return of the Soldier
by Rebecca West
Writing her first novel during World War I, West examines the relationship between three women and a soldier suffering from shell-shock. This novel of an …
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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
"I’m an outsider to the end of my days!" Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the …
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A Passage to India
by Edward Morgan Forster
Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, prepared to meet and marry a city magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the imperial bureaucracy, but an …
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The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
Presents a collection of fifteen critical reviews of Ford Madox Ford's classic novel "The Good Soldier," and contains the complete text, seventeen commentaries, and textual …