Modernism and Mobility The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience [Paperback]

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.Introduction: Modernism's Passport Problems 1. I Am Not England : D.H. Lawrence, National Identity and Aboriginality 2. An Independent Bureaucrat: Classification and Nationality in Stein's Autobiographies 3. Sensible of Being Etrangers : Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo 4. A Mania for Classification : Jean Rhys's Interwar Fiction 5. Itinerancy and Identity Confusion in The Berlin Stories Conclusion: W.H. Auden, Old Passports, and New BordersBridget Chalks Modernism and Mobility: The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience (2014) is the first book-length study taking up this recognition of the modern passports impact on modern literature, and it arrives none too soon in the burgeoning field of literary passport studies. & Chalks 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.