Cost and Registration Information
Early Registration Price (by May 19): $120
Regular Price (after May 19): $132
Seminar Description
From the Gilded Age to the Jazz Age, Americans flocked to Europe. Stories that emerged from these journeys—from Henry James to F. Scott Fitzgerald—will allow us to explore American attitudes to the “Old World” and how Americans have defined themselves and their culture through observing and interacting with other societies. Four sessions.
Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch is the Assistant Director of the Chabraja Center for Historical Studies at Northwestern University, where she also teaches literature classes.
Materials List
Required:
In print
- Henry James. Daisy Miller. Dover Thrift Editions, ISBN-10: 0486287734 / ISBN-13: 978-0486287737 or Penguin Classics: ISBN-10: 0141441348 / ISBN-13: 978-0141441344. OR this text can also be accessed for free online at: http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/1100/
- Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises. Scribner, ISBN-10: 0743297334, ISBN-13: 978-0743297332
Available online
- Edith Wharton, "Roman Fever" (1862-1937): Click here to access the story.
- Ernest Hemingway, "Cat in the Rain": elearn.uni-sofia.bg/mod/resource/view.php?id=88630
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Babylon Revisited": gutenberg.net.au/fsf/BABYLON-REVISITED.html
First Readings:
- Henry James, “The Last of the Valerii” (1874): http://www.henryjames.org.uk/lastv/home.htm
- Henry James, “The Madonna of the Future” (1873): http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/2751/
- O. Henry, "The Count and the Wedding Guest": https://americanenglish.state.gov/files/ae/resource_files/the-count-and-the-wedding-guest.pdf
This class is part of the Newberry’s Adult Education Seminars Program. Learn more about our registration procedures.