At-A-Glance, Skeleton Syllabus
CCM=Cambridge Companion to Modernism
BGR=Bloomsbury Group Reader
X=Xerox Book    R=Reserve    W=Web Site

1. Tues, Aug 24:  Intro to Course; History of London: Bloomsbury, etc.

• Course Handouts; Web Site
• London Maps

2. Tues, Aug 31: What is Modernism? 

• Selections from Cambridge Companion to Modernism
• Back to Bloomsbury: Conference Schedule (2004)
• Monroe K. Spears, “The Modern and the Past,” Chap 1 of Dionysus and the City (1970)
• Bonnie Kime Scott, Intro to Gender of Modernism (1990)
• Introduction to Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Tim Middleton. (2003)
• Christopher Reed, Intro to Bloomsbury Rooms (2004)

3. Tues, Sep 7: Early Modernist Poetics

a. CCM, Chap 4—Modern Poetry
b. T.E. Hulme,  “Romanticism and Classicism” (1911) (X)
c. Ezra Pound, “A Retrospect” (1917) (X)
d. T.S. Eliot, Selections from early crit in Kermode

4. Tues, Sep 14: Eliot, Early Poetry

a. "La Filia Che Piagne" (Nov. 1911)
b. "Portrait of a Lady" (completed Nov. 1911)
c. Preludes" (I, II Oct. 1910; III July 1911; IV Nov 1911)
d. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (July 1911)
e. “Prufrock’s Pervigilium” from Inventions of the March Hare (1912?) (X)

5. Tues, Sep 21:  Modernist Art 

a. CCM, Chap 8 Visual Arts
b. BGR, Roger Fry, “Impressionism” (1932)
c. BGR, Desmond McCarthy, “The Post-Impressionists” (1911)
d. BGR, Clive Bell, “The Artistic Problem” (1919) 
e. Clive Bell,  excerpt on “significant form” from Art (X)
f. BGR, Roger Fry, “Retrospect” from Vision and Design (1920)
g. BGR, Lytton Strachey, “Art and Indecency” (1921)

6. Tues, Sep 28:  Modernist Art of the Story

a.  Woolf , Monday or Tuesday |  Links on Short Storeis

i. "The Mark on the Wall"
ii. "Kew Gardens"
iii. "An Unwritten Novel"
iv. "A Haunted House"
v. "Monday or Tuesday"
vi. "Blue and Green"

b. Katherine Mansfield  Stories TBA

c. Critical essays on VW, KM, and their relationship

7. Tues, Oct 5: London Salons, Magazines, and Publishing 

a. CCM. Chap 2 Cultural Economy
b. Leonard Woolf
c. Lytton Strachey
d. John Middleton Murray & Katherine Mansfield
e. Ottoine Morrell
f. The Sitwells

8. Tues, Oct 12:  The Mythic Method of Modernism

a. Eliot--The Waste Land
b.  "Ulysses, Order, and Myth" from Kermode, ed. Selected Prose
c. Critical materials on TWL TBA
d. The Waste Land: Chronology, Structure, Notes, Links

9. Tues, Oct 19:  Gendering Modernism 

a. CCM, Chap 8
b. Woolf : A Room of One's Own (excerpts?)
c. Critical readings on Gender and Modernism TBA

10. Tues, Oct 26: The Modernist Novel: Theory

a.  CCM, Chap 3 Modernist Novel
b. Virignia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (X)
c. BGR, Virignia Woolf  “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”
d. BGR, Virginia Woolf,  “Ernest Hemingway” (1927)
e. Forester, Excerpts from Aspects of the Novel 

FALL BREAK 

11. Tues, Nov 9: Forster -- Passage to India (1924)

12. Tues, Nov 16:  Woolf—To the Lighthouse | Links forTo The Lighthouse

13. Tues, Nov 23: Modernist Politics 

a. CCM, Chap 6 Politics of Culture
b. BGR, Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren” (1930)
c. BGR, E.M. Forster, “What I Believe” (1939?)
d. BGR, Leonard Woolf, “Fear and Politics: A Debate at the Zoo” (1925)
e. Wyndham Lewis
f. Eliot – Excerpts from later prose in Kermode; After Strange Gods  ??
g. Woolf – Excerpts from Three Guineas ??

14. Tues, Nov 30:  Modernist London Mini-Conference: Presentations