Character In Modernist Fiction

“On or about December 1910," Virginia Woolf famously wrote, "human character changed". So too did characters in fiction. This course explores the new approaches to characterisation used by four modernist novelists: Joyce, Ford, Woolf and Lawrence.
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Resources for this course
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Virginia Woolf, “Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown” |
originally a talk read by Virginia Woolf to The Heretics Club ( includes brief introduction) |
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Modern Fiction |
Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” from The Common Reader |
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Tradition and the Individual Talent |
T.S. Eliot “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1919) |
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Why the Novel Matters |
D.H. Lawrence, “Why the Novel Matters” (1925) |
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DH Lawrence Website at the University of Nottingham |
DH Lawrence Website at the University of Nottingham |
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Art and Morality |
D.H. Lawrence, “Art and Morality” (1925) |
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The Modernism Lab at Yale University |
The Modernism Lab at Yale University: An excellent source of essays on Modernist writers |
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Scottish Network of Modernist Studies |
Scottish Network of Modernist Studies |
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"Pointed Roofs" by Dorothy Richardson |
The full text of "Pointed Roofs" by Dorothy Richardson |
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Dorothy Richardson website |
Dorothy Richardson website |
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The Spirit of the People, an analysis of the English mind |
An online reproduction of Ford Madox Hueffer (Ford) The Spirit of the People, an analysis of the English mind (1907): |
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Professions for Women |
"Professions for Women"essay by Virginia Woolf. |
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Modernism Chronology |
A timeline of Significant Moments in Modernism |
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Modernist essay topics |
Essay topics for the course Character In Modernist Fiction |
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Some Features of Modernism (1890–1939) |
Handout exploring key features of modernism, including rejection of ossified forms of expression, rebellion against traditional moral and social... |
Carol Peaker | view |