20th/21st Cent. British Novel

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Focusing on the study of major developments in British fiction from World War I to Brexit, this course will analyze issues of globalization and Britain's role in the globalized world. Focusing on issues of nation and nationality, of Britishness and history, the course will investigate the state of the nation in what has been seen as a far-reaching identity crisis and/or a massive inferiority complex. The authors may include Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, and, depending on the instructor, also Fowles, Spark, Ishiguro, Ali Smith and others.