My home page on UBC Blogs: https://blogs.ubc.ca/giselebaxter/
ENGL 365/001 Course Materials: https://blogs.ubc.ca/drgmbaxter/2026/05/10/engl-365-001-course-materials/ (password protected; I sent you the password via Workday email on Monday, May 11)
ENGL 365/001 Zoom Recording Links and Passcodes: https://blogs.ubc.ca/drgmbaxter/2026/05/12/engl-365-001-zoom-recording-links-and-passcodes/ (password protected: use the password sent to you via Workday email on Monday, May 11)
Course Texts
The Turn of the Screw, Women in Love, and Mrs. Dalloway are available through the UBC Bookstore.
- Dorothy Sayers, Strong Poison (Project Gutenberg)
- James Joyce, “The Dead” (Wikisource)
- Katherine Mansfield, “Prelude”
- Katherine Mansfield, “At the Bay”
Resource Links
Miscellaneous Resources
The Modernism Lab: Collaborative Research on Literary Modernism at Yale University This was a student project at Yale that is maintained as an archive; you can look up authors and artists from or adjacent to the period, individual texts, or years, to develop a greater sense of the Modernist timeline and its complexity. This isn’t an academic source, though it was developed in an academic context, but is useful as a dictionary/encyclopedia with visual elements.
- Modernism/Modernity (online element of the journal of the Modernist Studies Association)
- “What Flappers Really Wore in the 1920s” (Glamour Daze)
- Modernism vs Postmodernism (tendencies, not absolutes)
Katherine Mansfield
The Turn of the Screw
- “The endless horror of ghost story The Turn of the Screw” (Neil Armstrong, BBC Culture)
- Table of Contents for the Broadview edition of The Turn of the Screw
- “Pure Evil” (Colm Toíbín on The Turn of the Screw and its film adaptation The Innocents, Guardian)
James Joyce and Ireland
- The Irish Revolutionary Period (Wikipedia)
- 1912-1923 Timeline: Decade of Centenaries (University College Dublin)
- Timeline of Irish History (Wikipedia; see 19th and early 20th century entries)
- James Joyce: The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature (Oxford Reference)
Modernism and Mystery Fiction
- “The Literary Crossovers Between Modernist Literature and Golden Age Detective Fiction” (crossexaminingcrime)
- “Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, and Reverse Modernism” (popmatters)
Modernist Art and the Bloomsbury Group
- Photographs by Lady Ottoline Morrell
- “Virginia Woolf: writing death and illness into the national story of post-first world war Britain” (Jess Cotton, The Conversation) On reading Mrs. Dalloway, which is set in the shadow of both the war and the Spanish flu pandemic, during the Covid pandemic. The UBC Library has Elizabeth Outka’s Viral Modernism, as hard copy in Koerner.
- “Lifestyle and Legacy of the Bloomsbury Group” (Tate Museum)
- “What was the Bloomsbury group?” (National Trust)
- Bloomsbury (Tate; with several links and images)
- Modernism in Art (Tate; with several links and images)
- Futurism in Art (Tate; with several links and images)
Virginia Woolf: Primary Texts
- A Room of One’s Own
- A Haunted House and Other Short Stories
- Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown
- The Common Reader (scroll down to link to “Modern Fiction”)
- Table of Contents with all Appendices for the Broadview edition of Mrs Dalloway
Library Resources
- UBC Library
- Scholarly vs Popular Sources in Academic Research
- UBC Library Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources and their Uses
- How to recognize peer-reviewed (refereed) journals
- Beall’s List of Predatory Journals and Publishers
- MLA International Bibliography Page
- JSTOR Access through the UBC Library (choose JSTOR Collection)
- UBC Library Subject Guide to Research in English Courses
- UBC Library Guide to Avoiding Predatory Publishers (for authors but useful for researchers too)
Writing Resources
- UBC Learning Commons: Academic Integrity
- UBC Learning Commons (with links to tutoring services)
- Citation Style Guides
- Purdue OWL: MLA Style
- Purdue OWL: Literary Terms
- University of Toronto Writing Centre
- Writing About Literature: University of Toronto
- Revising for Style: Clarity and Conciseness (Duke University’s Thompson Writing Program)
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center: Proofreading