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A Literary Tour of the United States

Summary

Conclude the course with a look at American writers abroad. Trace the lives of Gertrude Stein and Edith Wharton in France and their views of American society. Walk the streets of Paris with Lost Generation novelists like Ernest Hemingway and contemplate James Baldwin's reflections from that city in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement.

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