3 credit(s) This course considers the evolution of British literature in the early to mid-20th century in the wake of a collapsing Empire and two World Wars. The innovative, experimental modes of expression of Modernism, disillusionment with Victorian values, changing attitudes toward gender and sexuality, and the redefinition of British identity will be explored through such writers as Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, Mansfield, West, Ford, and Maugham.