Allen Zhang

Advisor: Michael North

20th century British / Postcolonial part 1s list

Novels by date

1. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. 1899

2. James, Henry. The Ambassadors. 1903
3. Joyce, James. Ulysses. 1922
4. Forster, E.M. A Passage to India. 1924
5. Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. 1925
6. Waugh, Evelyn. Vile Bodies. 1930
7. Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 1932
8. Lowry, Malcolm. Under the Volcano. 1947
9. Bowen, Elizabeth. The Heat of the Day. 1949
10. Orwell, George. 1984. 1949
11. Beckett, Samuel. Molloy. 1955
12. Selvon, Sam. The Lonely Londoners. 1956
13. Naipaul, V.S. A House for Mr Biswas. 1961
14. Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. 1962
15. Lessing, Doris. The Golden Notebook. 1962
16. Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966
17. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight’s Children. 1981
18. Carter, Angela. Nights at the Circus. 1984
19. Kureishi, Hanif. The Buddha of Suburbia. 1990
20. Okri, Ben. The Famished Road. 1991 ???
21. Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go. 2005
22. McCarthy, Tom. Remainder. 2007

Drama

1. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot. 1954

2. Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. 1966

Poetry

1. Yeats, William Butler. “The Second Coming” (1920) and The Tower (1928)

2. Eliot, T.S. “The Waste Land.” 1922

3. Auden, W. H. Another Time. 1940

4. Smith, Stevie. Collected Poems. 1957

5. Larkin, Philip. High Windows. 1974

6. Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. 1991

7. Walcott, Derek. Omeros. 1990

Secondary

1. Walkowitz, Rebecca. Cosmopolitan Style: Modernism Beyond the Nation. 2006

2. Jameson, Frederic. The Political Unconscious. 1981

3. Moretti, Franco. Modern Epic. 1995

4. Esty, Jed. A Shrinking Island. 2003

5. Kenner, Hugh. A Sinking Island. 1987

6. Nicholls, Peter. Modernisms. 1995

7. Miller, Tyrus. Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the World
Wars. 1999

8. Baucom, Ian. Out of Place. 1999

9. Levenson, Michael. Modernism and the Fate of Individuality: Character and

Novelistic Form from Conrad to Woolf. 2005

10. Ramanzani, Jahani. A Transnational Poetics. 2009