Paris in the Twenties: A Moveable Feast

Course Code: LITC2602

Start Date: 22/04/2026

Day of the Week:

Wednesday

Session: Morning

Delivery method: Hybrid (Centre and Zoom)

Length in weeks: 10

Time: 10am-12pm

Price: £

This course is focused around the famous Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris run by Sylvia Beach. We will examine the story of the bookshop and the English-language writers who gathered there (James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Ford Madox Ford). Texts: Kerri Maher, The Paris Bookseller (2022); Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (1964).