Modernism and Mobility

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

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 Borders

“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)