Vacation Reading 1919-Present Day Pam Thurschwell’s class You will need to buy the course reader (which will be available in the HUMS office by the end of term. Please make sure you buy the one with my name on it!) and purchase or have access to the following texts: Modernism: An Anthology edited by Lawrence Rainey (Blackwell, 2007) Many of the readings for the course will come from this reader. I urge you to buy it. The following are all in Rainey: T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922) Virginia Woolf, Between the Acts (1941) Samuel Beckett, Endgame (1957) and Texts for Nothing (1955)
These you should purchase separately: E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) Elizabeth Bowen, The Heat of the Day (1949) Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners (1959) This may be currently out of print. It is available in an ominbus volume, Colin MacInnes, The London Novels but you can usually find secondhand copies of Absolute Beginners in used bookstores or online as well. Samuel Selvon, The Lonely Londoners Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) Don DeLillo, White Noise (1985) Toni Morrison, Sula (1973) Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes were Watching God (1937) Angela Carter, Wise Children (1991) I urge you to get started on The Waste Land, Forster and Woolf over vacation. I look forward to meeting you in January.