Modernism and Mobility [electronic resource] : The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience /
Chalk, B.author.
Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Modernism's Passport Problems; CHAPTER 1 "I Am Not England": D. H. Lawrence, National Identity, and Aboriginality; CHAPTER 2 An Independent Bureaucrat: Classification and Nationality in Stein's Autobiographies; CHAPTER 3 "Sensible of Being Etrangers": Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo; CHAPTER 4 A "Mania for Classification": Jean Rhys's Interwar Fiction; CHAPTER 5 Itinerancy and Identity Confusion in The Berlin Stories; Conclusion: W. H. Auden, "Old Passports," and New Borders; Notes; Works Cited; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism.
British literature.
Literature, Modern-20th century.
Literature-History and criticism.
History, Modern.
Fiction.
Great Britain-History.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary History.
Modern History.
Fiction.
History of Britain and Ireland.