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)