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Modern British Field Theory Exam Working List
Primary Works
Fiction:
- Kingsley Amis. Lucky Jim (1954).
- Anthony Burgess. A Clockwork Orange (1962).
- Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness (1899); Lord Jim (1900); Nostromo (1904); The Secret Agent (1907).
- E. M. Forster. Howard's End (1910); A Passage to India (1924).
- Ford Madox Ford. The Good Soldier (1915).
- Graham Greene. Brighton Rock (1938); The Power and the Glory (1940).
- Aldous Huxley. Brave New World (1932).
- James Joyce. Dubliners (1914); A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916); Ulysses (1922).
- James Kelman. A Disaffection (1989); How Late It Was, How Late (1994).
- George Lamming. In the Castle of My Skin (1953).
- D. H. Lawrence. Sons and Lovers (1913); The Rainbow (1915); Women in Love (1920).
- Katherine Mansfield. Collected Stories (1911-1923).
- V. S. Naipaul. A House for Mr. Biswas (1961); A Bend in the River (1979); The Enigma of Arrival (1987).
- Ben Okri. The Famished Road (1991).
- Salman Rushdie. Midnight's Children (1981); Shame (1983); The Satanic Verses (1988).
- Sam Selvon. The Lonely Londoners (1956).
- Alan Sillitoe. The Loneliness of A Long Distance Runner and Other Stories (1959).
- Lytton Strachey. Eminent Victorians (1918).
- Leonard Woolf. The Village in the Jungle (1913).
- Virginia Woolf. Jacob's Room (1922); Mrs. Dalloway (1925); To the Lighthouse 1927); Orlando (1928); A Room of One’s Own (1929); Three Guineas (1938).
Poetry:
- W. H. Auden. Collected Poems (1928-1973).
- T. S. Eliot. The Wasteland and Other Poems (1922); Four Quartets (1925).
- Seamus Heaney. North (1975).
- Linton Kwesi Johnson. Tings An’ Times (1991); Mi Revalueshanary Fren (2006).
- Dylan Thomas. Collected Poems, 1934-1952 (1952).
- Derek Walcott. Omeros (1990).
- Willam Butler Yeats. The Tower (1928); The Winding Stair (1933).
Drama:
- Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot (1953); Endgame (1957); Collected Shorter Plays (1984).
- Caryl Churchill. Cloud Nine (1979); Top Girls (1982).
- Sarah Kane. Blasted (1995).
- John Osborne. Look Back in Anger (1956).
- Joe Orton. Loot (1965); The Complete Plays (1976).
- Harold Pinter. Caretaker (1959); The Homecoming (1964).
- George Bernard Shaw. Major Barbara (1905); Heartbreak House (1919).
- Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966).
- Dylan Thomas. Under Milk Wood (1954).
- Willam Butler Yeats. On Baile’s Strand (1904); Purgatory (1938).
Critical and Historical Works:
- Benedict Anderson. Imagined Communities (1983).
- Matthew Arnold. Culture and Anarchy (1869).
- John Berger. Any one of the following: Ways of Seeing (1972); About Looking (1980); Sense of Sight (1985).
- Marshall Berman. All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity (1982).
- Malcolm Bradbury and James McFarland, eds., Modernism: A Guide to European Literature, 1890-1930 (1976).
- T. J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea (1999).
- Kevin J. H. Dettmar and Stephen Watt, eds., Marketing Modernisms (1996).
- Paul Fussell. The Great War and Modern Memory (1975).
- Simon Gikandi. Maps of Englishness: Writing Identity in the Culture of Colonialism (1996).
- Paul Gilroy. There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation (1987).
- Stuart Hall and Tony Jefferson. Resistance Through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain (1976).
- Stuart Hall, et al. Policing the Crisis (1978).
- Dick Hedbige. Subculture: The Meaning of Style (1979).
- Richard Hoggart. The Uses of Literacy (1957).
- Eric Hobsbawm, et al. The Invention of Tradition (1983).
- Eric Hobsbawn. Age of Extremes, 1914-1991 (1994).
- Jane M. Jacobs. Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City (1996).
- C.L.R. James. Beyond a Boundary (1963).
- Hugh Kenner, The Pound Era (1971).
- Michael Levenson, A Genealogy of Modernism (1984).
- Henry Mayhew. London Labour and the London Poor (1851).
- Peter Nicholls, Modernisms (1995).
- Michael North, Reading 1922 (1999).
- George Orwell. The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).
- John Ruskin. On Life and Art (1853-1859, 2004).
- Edward Said. Culture and Imperialism (1993).
- Raphael Samuel. Theatres of Memory (1996); Island Stories (1997).
- Sanford Schwartz, The Matrix of Modernism (1985).
- Carolyn Steedman. Landscape for a Good Woman (1986).
- Gareth Stedman-Jones. Languages of Class: Studies in English Working Class History (1983).
- Graeme Turner. British Cultural Studies: An Introduction (1990).
- Patrick Wright. On Living in an Old Country (1985).
- Raymond Williams. The Country and the City (1973); The Politics of Modernism (1989).
