The decades between two world wars were characterised by political
conflict, economic instability and intellectual allegiances to both
communism and fascism. Aesthetically, the continuous influence of
modernism as well as traditional forms like the domestic novel but also
more direct responses to the changing political climate shaped the
literary landscape . In this reading-intensive course we will study a
number of these literary texts and their contexts, including E. Waugh's Vile Bodies, C. Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, N. Mitford's Wigs on the Green, J. Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, as well as texts by Virginia Woolf.
- Kursleiter*in: Aileen Behrendt