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This course will engage with a range of texts written by women authors in the period after World War I, and examine them within their socio-cultural and political context and alongside theoretical concepts of the time. We will look at the changes that occur in the interwar period in the social relations of gender and class, and relate them to the modernist transformations of the philosophical conceptions of subjectivity, artistic capacity, history, and tradition. We will read novels, short stories, and non-fiction in order to analyse how modernist women’s writing negotiates questions of representation, knowledge systems, and literary genre. To consider the relationship between aesthetics and politics, we will look at how these texts discuss changes in gender and class dynamics, but also the issues of war, imperialism, and colonialism. In addition to literary texts, we will also read critical writing on modernism and feminism, and selected gender, queer, and postcolonial theory. Special attention will be paid to issues of gender, sexuality, race, class, and their relation to concepts of identity, subjectivity, and embodiment.
In preparation for the seminar, you can acquire and start reading the following texts:
- Sylvia Townsend-Warner, Lolly Willows (1926)
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Three Guineas (1938)
- Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark (1934)
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