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English 149-3 - Spring, 2020
Topics in Literature
Topic: Global London
Class Information
Instructor:
Frederickson, Kathleen
CRN:
64102
Time:
TR 1:40-3:00
Description
Global London explores how poems, plays, novels, and films represent the British capital?s relation to the rest of the world, focusing on London as the administrative center for the British empire, as an ?emporium? for colonial imports and other foreign consumer goods, as a host to foreign travelers, and as a multi-lingual city of immigrants.
Texts
The Shadow Lines
, Ghosh
White Teeth
, Smith
The Sign of Four
, Doyle