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Dec 07, 2025
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Goucher College 2012-2013 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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ENG 270 - Modernism (3 Cr.) (GEN. ED. #9) (LER-TXT)
“Text and the City.” This course is a study of important works of literature which are situated intricately and with great spatial specificity into the geography of a major city during the first half of the twentieth century. Our primary task is to measure the effect of the modern urban experience—social, political, psychological, kinetic—on modern consciousness and consequently on literary content and form. We explore how works by Forster, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Auden, Isherwood, Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Rhys appropriate and transform city space into literary space. Beginning with a look at the age-old polarity of country and city, we move to several of the great metropolitan and artistic centers of the era: Dublin; London; Berlin and Paris. In the process, we also chart the arc of the historical times: World War I; the Boom and High Modernism; the Bust and decline toward World War II.
Prerequisite: College Writing Proficiency. Fall semester. Offered 2012-13 and alternate years. Cordish.
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