This course will explore three novels connected by a sense of nostalgia for days gone by. Beginning with E.M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) we will consider gender and social class within the context of the Edwardian Era. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945) follows the changing fortunes of the aristocratic Flyte family from the 1920s to the Second Word War. Love for Lydia (1952) by H.E. Bates is more than a love story and is set against the shifting terrain of country life and class differences in England of the 1920s.

It will be helpful if you have a copy of the books in class as we read passages from, and comment on them. A list of weekly readings will be issued once you have registered.

The Tutor is Dr Denise Hanrahan-Wells whose expertise lies in both American and English literature. She has taught at Winchester University, the WEA, and the LCA.