Sex, Love, and Literature

Three credits · Undergraduate

This course will consider how modern culture, from the eighteenth century to the present, imagines sex and love. Readings will involve stories of happy and unhappy love, impossible love, unrealized love, sexual fantasies, desire and its frustration. Material covered will range from major modern novels addressed to the complexities of sexuality and desire, to recent film and television. Prerequisite: ENGL 100 or 111 or equivalent. Three credits.