Modernism and Mobility

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Modernism’s Passport Problems

   • Bridget T. Chalk

   Pages 1-35

3. “I Am Not England”: D. H. Lawrence, National Identity, and Aboriginality

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   Pages 37-62

4. An Independent Bureaucrat: Classification and Nationality in Stein’s Autobiographies

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   Pages 63-91

5. “Sensible of Being Etrangers”: Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo

   • Bridget T. Chalk

   Pages 93-118

6. A “Mania for Classification”: Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction

   • Bridget T. Chalk

   Pages 119-145

7. Itinerancy and Identity Confusion in The Berlin Stories

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   Pages 147-175

8. Conclusion: W. H. Auden, “Old Passports,” and New Borders

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   Pages 177-187

9. Back Matter

   Pages 189-240

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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.

• David Herbert Lawrence
• England
• fiction
• Modernism
• British and Irish Literature

“Bridget Chalk’s Modernism and Mobility: The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience (2014) is the first book-length study taking up this recognition of the modern passport’s impact on modern literature, and it arrives none too soon in the burgeoning field of literary passport studies. … Chalk’s book is a welcome and necessary contribution to modernist studies, and the incipient area of literary passport studies.” (Nissa Ren Cannon, Journal of Modern Literature, Vol. 41 (1), 2017)

Bridget T. Chalk is Assistant Professor of English at Manhattan College, USA.

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