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ENGL 393: The Early Twentieth-Century English Novel (Rev. 4) Report a Broken Link

Unit 2: Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock

Commentary Links
klankbeeld. "Choir sings 'Magnificat.'" freesound.org, https://freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/263681/. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025. 

Unit 3: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

Assigned Reading
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway. 1925. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71865.
Supplementary Viewing and Reading
"LITERATURE - Virginia Woolf." YouTube, uploaded by The School of Life, 18 Sept. 2015, www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1W7wqXD_b0.
"Charleston - Bloomsbury Group Bohemia." YouTube, uploaded by BellisVintage, 18 Oct. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=x28hGsR8Cvc.
Featherstone, Mike. “The Flâneur, the City and Virtual Public Life.” Urban Studies, vol. 35, no. 5–6, 1998, pp. 909–925.
Clarke, Stuart N. “A Mrs. Dalloway Walk in London.” Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2000, www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/resources/a-mrs-dalloway-walk-in-london/.
“Mrs. Dalloway’s London.” Google Maps, 27 Mar. 2021, www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zm1T8z0Aa-Yo.kOsfhCTCtnZs&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&dg=feature.

Unit 4: James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Reading Assignment
Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. 1916. Project Gutenberg, www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4217.

Unit 5: Introduction to Empire

Supplementary Reading
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. "British Empire Timeline." Encyclopedia Britannica, 12 Oct. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/summary/British-Empire-Timeline. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

Unit 6: E. M. Forster's A Passage to India

Supplementary Viewing
"A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984) trailer HD." YouTube, uploaded by Murray Thompson, 7 May 2018, www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRz8rzv5rM4. 

Trailer for the 1984 film adaptation of the novel directed by David Lean

Unit 7: Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan

Supplementary Reading
Dwivedi, Om Prakash, Kamran Asdar Ali, and Tabish Khair. “Introduction: Partition—75 Years On.” The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, vol. 57, no. 3, 2022, pp. 497–500. https://0-journals-sagepub-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/doi/epub/10.1177/00219894221115903
Roy, Rituparna. South Asian Partition Fiction in India: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh. Amsterdam University Press, 2010. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46mz7z
Hinchy, Jessica. Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra c. 1850-1900. Cambridge University Press, 2019. https://0-ebookcentral-proquest-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/lib/athabasca-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5761102
Khan, Arman. “Beyond Heeramandi: A Brief History of India’s Courtesans Sans the Glamour of Bollywood.” Vogue India, 2 Feb. 2024, https://www.vogue.in/content/beyond-heeramandi-a-brief-history-of-indias-courtesans-sans-the-glamour-of-bollywood. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.

Unit 8: George Orwell's Burmese Days

Supplementary Reading
Taylor, D. J. “Orwell: A Brief Life.” The Orwell Foundation, 28 Mar. 2021, www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/biography/.
Perlez, Jane. "In Myanmar Outpost, a Fading Orwellian Link." The New York Times, 24 May 2013. Gale Academic OneFile Select, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A331030095/EAIM?u=atha49011&sid=bookmark-EAIM&xid=c5a29d0a. Accessed 21 May 2025.

Unit 9: Kamala Markandaya's Nectar in a Sieve

Supplementary Reading
Kumar, Shiv. “Tradition and Change in the Novels of Kamala Markandaya.” Books Abroad, vol. 43, no. 4, 1969, pp. 508–513. JSTOR, https://0-doi-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/10.2307/40123776. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

Unit 10: Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark

Supplementary Reading
"Jean Rhys Biography." University of the West Indies, https://www.open.uwi.edu/sites/default/files/bnccde/dominica/centre/Jean%20Rhys%20Bio.htm. Accessed 7 January 2025.
Evans, Anna. “Points of Surfacing: Voyage in the Dark.” The Street Walks In, 29 July, 2022, https://streetwalksin.org/2019/07/22/points-of-surfacing-voyage-in-the-dark/.
Gornick, Virginia. “Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark.” The New Republic, 6 January, 2023, https://newrepublic.com/article/169571/jean-rhyss-voyage-dark.
Loendorf, Harald. “Two Tunes: Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 46, no. 1, 2000, pp. 24–36, https://0-www-jstor-org.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/stable/40654111.
MacDonald, Kate. “The Use of London Lodgings in Middlebrow Fiction, 1900-1930s.” Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, vol. 9, no. 1, 2011, http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journal/march2011/macdonald.html. Accessed 8 April 2025.
Wilson, Lucy. “‘Women Must Have Spunks’: Jean Rhys’s West Indian Outcasts.” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 32, no. 3, 1986, pp. 439–448, https://0-muse-jhu-edu.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/pub/1/article/242094.
Wood, James. “A Prison of One's Own / The Many Confrontations of Jean Rhys.” The New Yorker, 4 July 2022, https://0-search-ebscohost-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=url,ip,uid&db=f5h&AN=157756341&site=ehost-live.