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LITERATURE

LIT-640

Advanced Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (3)

Course Level: Graduate

Topics vary by section, may be repeated for credit with different topic. Rotating topics in British and European literature ranging from nineteenth century melodrama in different national traditions to the Victorian or Romantic novel, Victorian or Romantic poetry, French realism, and French Symbolist poetry, the Romantic imagination, the politics of poetry, and the Shelley circle, with emphasis on research. Meets with LIT-440. Usually offered every year.

LIT-640

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LITERATURE

SPRING 2013

Course Level: Graduate

Advanced Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (3)

Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Others

Students read English translations of selected texts by classic nineteenth-century Russian writers, including Gogol, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, and Chekhov. Readings include Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Tolstoy's Anna Karenina as well as a Pushkin's novel in verse Eugene Onegin. Meets with LIT-440 001.

LIT-640

001

LITERATURE

FALL 2013

Course Level: Graduate

Advanced Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature (3)

Eliot and Hardy

In addition to being among the most praised of Victorian novelists, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy also had in common an interest in the depiction of the complexities of normal states of consciousness, controversial stances toward Victorian ethical and political beliefs, considerable experimentation with literary techniques central to nineteenth-century fiction and oddly, among all that innovation, depiction of English rural life, at times construed as an almost timeless background. Their interest in investing the novel with a political, ethical, and philosophical range through their use of narrative voice also made their tones and stances similar enough so that one of Hardy's early novels, published anonymously, was attributed to Eliot. The class reads the major works of each novelist, including Middlemarch, Daniel Deronda, Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. Meets with LIT-440 001.