This course explores American literature between the World Wars, tracing how themes of trauma, loss, disillusion, and dislocation, as well as issues of race, gender, and class, engendered vibrant "modernist" literary experimentation in this era. Writers may include John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Tillie Olsen.
5 units · Letter or Credit/No Credit · GER: WAY-A-II
This course explores American literature between the World Wars, tracing how themes of trauma, loss, disillusion, and dislocation, as well as issues of race, gender, and class, engendered vibrant "modernist" literary experimentation in this era. Writers may include John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, and Tillie Olsen.
Offered in Winter 2026 at Stanford University.