Course Description: A selection of French nineteenth-century novels approached from a variety of critical, historical, and theoretical perspectives. Readings will be drawn from the canon of classic works by Chateaubriand, Madame de Staël, Constant, Stendhal, Balzac, Sand, Hugo, Flaubert, Sand, Zola, Maupassant, Huysmans, and Proust. Some attention will be paid to French painting in this period as artists and novelists alike challenged the norms governing what could be shown and told. Cross-listed with 195:354:01
Undergraduate Course Descriptions
01:420:242 - Major French Writers in Translation - Showing and Telling in the French 19th-Century Novel
- SAS Core Learning: AHp, WCd
- Language Taught In: Taught in English
- Credits: 3
