The figures of Lawrence and Woolf tend to dominate critical discussions of the 20th Century British novel. The two authors seem polar opposites in many ways, including those of class, gender, sexuality, politics, and narrative techniques. The seminar will study these two authors in tandem, considering how each one contributes to the dynamics of British modernism, and questioning whether their differences suggest a bifurcation of modernist theoretical assumptions. Approaches to teaching these major canonical figures will be one of several topics that the class will investigate. The seminar is suitable for first year graduate students as well as more advanced ones, although some previous experience with modernist texts and knowledge of the cultural, philosophical, and literary history of modernism would be useful. Texts: Lawrence: Sons and Lovers, Fantasia of the Unconscious, Women in Love, Lady Chatterley's Lover. Woolf: To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves.