ENGLISH 154: Expats and Cosmopolitan Fiction, 1900-1940 (seminar) Taught by: Andrew Goldstone Fall Quarter, 2009-2010 MW 1:15-3:05, Room: 60-118 | If there is an international republic of letters, writers who leave their home countries are among the prime candidates for citizenship. But what is the relationship between writers' cosmopolitan lifestyles and their writings? How does fiction address issues of political internationalism, rootlessness, nostalgia, touristic adventure? This seminar studies these questions in the fiction of the golden era of expatriates and exiles, 1900-1940, with a special emphasis on historical contexts from the founding of Cosmopolitan magazine to the Great Depression. Readings include works by Henry James, James Joyce, Claude McKay, E.M. Forster, Elizabeth Bowen, Djuna Barnes, and Christopher Isherwood. This course fulfills the following Major Requirements:
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