ENGL 90 English Study Abroad I
In this class we will read a range of literary texts about London in order to think about and model our own critical and creative explorations of one of the planet’s most culturally diverse and historically layered urban environments. The emphasis of the class is two-fold: we will use texts as a way into the city, and the material spaces and histories of the city itself as a way of constructing our own texts. Readings will include works focused on London by writers such as Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Zadie Smith, Bernadine Evaristo, Alan Moore and others. We will also pay attention to the larger national, imperial and global contexts in which London and its literature have been situated and with which they continue to engage.