Additional (not required) primary texts

Barnes, Djuna. Nightwood (1934)

Cather, Willa. The Professor’s House (1925)

Dos Passos, John. Manhattan Transfer (1925)

Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (1925)

Williams, William Carlos. Spring and All (1923)

Additional (not required) Films:

Chaplin, Charlie (dir.). Modern Times (1936)

–Metropolis

Additional (not required) Critical Reading: for your research

Enda Duffy, The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism (Duke University Press, 2009)

Andreas Huyssen, After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism (Indiana University Press, 1986): especially “The Hidden Dialectic: Avantgarde–Technology–Mass Culture” and “Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other”

Rita Felski, The Gender of Modernity (Harvard University Press, 1995)

Susan Stanford Friedman, “Periodizing Modernism: Postcolonial Modernities and the Space/Time Borders of Modernist Studies” in Modernism/Modernity (2006)

Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space 1880-1918 (Harvard University Press, 1983)

Sean Latham and Gayle Rogers, eds. The New Modernist Studies Reader: An Anthology of Essential Criticism (Bloomsbury Press, 2021)

Michael Levenson, The Genealogy of Modernism: Study of English Literary Doctrine 1908-1922 (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

Jerome McGann, Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism (Princeton University Press, 1993)

Michael North, The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (Oxford University Press, 1994)

Jessica Pressman, Digital Modernism: Making it New in New Media (Oxford University Press, 2013)

Lawrence Rainey, Institutions of Modernism: Literary Elites and Public Culture (Yale University Press, 1999)

eds. Douglas Mao and Rebecca Walkowitz, Bad Modernisms (Duke University Press, 2006)