Fall 2008

WGS 393 • REVL IN LIT IN 19TH-C FRANCE

Course Description

In this course we will consider questions of gender and artistic genre in major works by nineteenth-century authors from the Romantic period through Decadence. Our readings will include novels, plays and poetry, as well as contemporary theory and criticism.

Texts

Chateaubriand, Atala and René Staël, Corinne Hugo, Hernani Berlioz, La Symphonie fantastique Balzac, Le Père Goriot Sand, Indiana Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris Flaubert, Madame Bovary Zola, Au Bonheur des dames Huysmans, A rebours Course packet of critical texts

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