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Literary modernism has often been characterized as a revolution in form.  In terms of the novel,
the label invokes alternative strategies of representation that self-consciously break apart and
examine the conventions of realist fiction.  Yet Britain in the twentieth century has also seen
revolutions in quite different types of forms, including the structures associated with imperialism
and the nation, categories of gender and race, and the body itself.  How are the shake-ups of these
physio-social forms related to the linguistic formal shifts associated with modernism?  By tracing
these motifs as they arise in early modernism (including works by Conrad, Stoker, H. G. Wells)
through the Edwardians (Forster, Lawrence, Mansfield) and up to the period of high modernism
precipitated by World War I (Woolf, Joyce), we will examine the ways in which the formal
innovations engage and rehearse the larger anxieties these fictions express.