19th Century French Novel

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

A study of important French novels of the nineteenth century (Balzac, Stendhal, Sand, Flaubert, Zola). Focus will be on close readings of plot, character, thematics, and style, as well as on historical and ideological questions raised. While there will be a lecture component, this is primarily a discussion course. This course fulfills the upper-division post-1800 literature requirement for the French major.