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For one month each summer, students can live and study in the vibrant metropolis that inspired visionary writers from Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf. In this faculty-led English Department program, students will explore writings from early and modern authors that capture the comedy and tragedy of this magnificent city. London will be the students' classroom, and the poems, novels, and plays of London's authors will be their maps, leading them from Bloomsbury to the Globe Theater, from the British Museum to the Poet's Corner, and from Cheapside to Whitehall.

The students will take two classes on London and its literary history: Virginia Woolf's London and Cosmopolitan London. Together, these courses will guide the students through the London of Virginia Woolf and through the city built from colonial prosperity and devastated by war in the last century. Each course will be offered under more than one course number to accommodate majors with different requirements to fulfill. Reading, assignments, and grading will encourage the students to experience British culture and history firsthand.

The students will stay in shared apartments in Bloomsbury, located in west central London. These apartments are close to the Dickens House as well as King's Cross Station and Russell Square. The students will attend class a mere half block from the famed British Museum and will attend lectures at various cultural locales, like museums, gardens, and libraries.