ENG-218 World War I and Modern Literature
World War I, the most literary war in British
history, altered the landscape of British
literature. This course will examine the war
poets' verse; soldiers' and nurses'
autobiographies; Virginia Woolf's modernist novel
Mrs. Dalloway; T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste
Land"; and Pat Barker's recent novel
Regeneration, the fictional account of the
relationship between military psychiatrist
William Rivers and shell-shocked poets Siegfried
Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.(Introduction to
Literary Studies)
Prerequisites: FYS-101 or FYS-110
Prerequisite
FYS-101 or
FYS-110 must be completed prior to registering
for this course.