Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Modernism's Queer Spaces
Course Number:
ENG00088H
Course Description:
From the vantage point of the twenty-first century, it is tempting to look back upon the modernist period as a thoroughly gay old time. As Ezra Pound was calling upon his contemporaries to ‘Make it New’ – a slogan that, in Michael North’s words, has become ‘so ubiquitous as to have lost its trademark status, like Kleenex or the Xerox copy’ – writers on both sides of the Atlantic were finding exciting ways of subverting textual and sexual norms. But for all the thrills of the sapphic salons, the possibilities of new gender identities announced by Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (1928), and narrative structures that refused to be ‘straight’, writers found themselves in a political climate that was as restrictive as it was progressive. With the First World War having raised suspicion of all that was ‘other’, novels as diverse as D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow (1915) and Radclyffe Hall’s The Well
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00088H/latest
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