• Introduction
• American Modernism
• ReadingGatsby
• The Jazz Age
• Singers and Songwriters
• Ashes and Millionaires
• Essay Sources

Ash Heaps and Millionaires

In this unit of the class we will focus on the questions brought about by the rise of the modern city and the ways these issues are explored by American writers in the first decades of the twentieth century. Our central text will be The Great Gatsby, but we will bring a particular focus to the ways the questions Fitzgerald poses continue to be relevant a century later.