A course on postwar and postmodern British novels, focusing on the question of identities—individual and national—in the era after empire. We'll explore re-imaginings of the novel after modernism and the social worlds with which they are concerned.

Texts will include Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall; George Orwell, 1984; Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano; Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses; Zadie Smith, White Teeth; Marianne Wiggins, John Dollar; P. D. James, Children of Men.