"On or about December 1910" human character changed,” Virginia Woolf wrote, and we will consider what truth might have been in her cheeky claim. Starting about twenty-five years before this supposed inflection point (Conrad, Wilde) and continuing about twenty-five years after it (Bowen, Anand), this course focuses on the British aspect of the complex global movement known as literary modernism: its ambivalences, false starts, poses, challenges, habits, and experiments. Prerequisite: One course in English with attribute GFWI.