Modernist Women Writers and the Short Story: Woolf, Mansfield, Sinclair

The short stories of the Modernist women writers Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and May Sinclair are remarkable for their experimentation with narrative style and genre, revealing the depths of our consciousness. We will be reading selected short stories by each of these writers to examine how they probe our understanding of human relationships. In our weekly discussions, we will be thinking about what it is that makes these stories so daring: how do they represent a departure from the literary tradition established in the nineteenth century? How do Woolf, Mansfield and Sinclair resist or subvert conventional expectations for women between the 1910s and 1930s?

Tutor: Milena Schwab-Graham PhD

Term: Spring

Day: Monday

Time: 7-9pm

Start Date: 22 January 2024

No. of weeks: 8

Full fee: £83 

This course will be delivered via Zoom. Students joining the course will need access to a computer, laptop or tablet with a microphone (essential) and a webcam (desirable), as well as a reliable broadband connection.

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