5:45 – 7:45 pm
Gertrude Stein once said, “It is not what France gave you but what it did not take away from you that was important.” We will read and discuss fictional and autobiographical writings of American writers in Paris. We will consider the historical, political, and cultural differences between France and the United States that contributed to the development of world-renowned as well as lesser-known expatriate writers, including James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.
Anita Welbon holds a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University and is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Humanities at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Eight sessions, $190.
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Materials List
Required:
Baldwin, James. Notes of a Native Son. Beacon, 1984. ISBN: 978-0807064313
Hemingway, Ernest. A Moveable Feast. Scribner, 1996. ISBN: 978-0684824994
Hemingway, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner, 2006. ISBN: 978-0743297332
Stein, Gertrude. Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Vintage, 1990. ISBN: 978-0679724636