The European Novel From Goethe to Proust

Readings of major European novels of the 19th century as literary reflections on philosophical questions such as aesthetic and ethical judgment, subjectivity, mimesis, memory and the novel itself as a genre. Authors include Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert and Proust. Selections from Kant, Hegel, Marx, Lukács and Benjamin.