MSt Modernism: English Literature, 1890-1939

This two-year part-time course focuses on the radical experimentation in language and form which resulted in the distinctive work of writers in the Modernist period. The first (taught) year consists of weekly evening classes, a day-school on research methods, and a weekend school on Modernism and the Arts.

The course proceeds chronologically and places the literature studied in the social and historical conditions from which it arose and which in turn it helped to shape. The second year consists of independent, supervised study leading to a 15,000-word dissertation. The course is taught by members of the English Faculty and other specialists. Students become members of a Cambridge College. Students are admitted every two years; next entry 2010.