Topics in Literature
Topic: Global London
Class Information
Instructor: Frederickson, Kathleen
CRN: 44409
Time: MWF 1:10-2:00
Location: 1120 Hart
GE Areas: Writing Experience
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.
Grading
2 papers
midterm
final
in-class presentation
Texts
Beer in the Snooker Club, Ghali
Brick Lane, Ali
Mr Loverman, Evaristo
The Sign of Four, Conan Doyle
PDFs on Canvas