ENG 232 Topics:Contemporary British Literature

This course explores the social and historical contexts of contemporary British literary production.Depending on the instructor's focus, readings may examine the post-World War II shift in Britain's identity to a present-day Commonwealth; the Thatcher Administration and the punk rock movement; or Britain's ambivalence toward the European Union.Readings may include writers such as Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, A.S. Byatt, Jeanette Winterson, Kazuo Ishiguro, Iris Murdoch, and Zadie Smith.This course may be taken more than once, provided it addresses a different topic. (L04)