Spring 2010

FR 390M • GENDER/GENRE REVOLUTIONS IN 19TH CENTURY LITERATURE

Course Description

In this course we will consider representative texts from the major nineteenth-century movements-- Romanticism, Realism, Idealism, Naturalism and Decadence-- in terms of their revolutionary form and content, with special attention to the ways in which each of these authors addresses the questions of self and other in society. We will read novels, a play, and prose poetry, as well as critical texts from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Grading Policy

Participation: 20%
In-class presentation: 20%
Short paper (5-7 pp): 20%
Final paper (20 pp): 40%

Texts

Chateaubriand, Atala
Hugo, Hernani
Balzac, Eugenie Grandet
Les Francais peints par eux-memes Sand, Indiana
Baudelaire, Le Spleen de Paris
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Zola, L'Oeuvre

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