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