Readings

The following primary texts will be discussed in class:

  • Excerpt from Marie Corelli, Wormwood: A Drama of Paris (1890)
  • James Joyce, “Counterparts” (1914)
  • F. Scott Fitzgerald, “May Day” (1920)
  • Excerpt from Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt (1922)
  • Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (1926)
  • Zora Neale Hurston, “The Back Room” (1927)
  • Dorothy Parker, “Big Blonde” (1929)
  • Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight (1939)
  • Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend (1944)
  • Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano (1947)