Joseph Conrad
Colonialism
(scramble for Africa, suppression of piracy )
New Imperialism (J. A. Hobson)
Cultural context of the late
Victorian period (Darwinism)
Modernism
(Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence)
Literary theory
(postcolonialism, postmodernism)
Contemporary English fiction (Ian
McEwan)
Modern English Poetry (T. S. Eliot)
Science Fiction (Philip Dick)
Literature and Science
Liquid modernity (Bauman)