Syllabus 2005
Romanticism
François-René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848), Renéand Atala (1802)
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830), Adolphe (1816)
Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863), Servitude and Grandeur of Arms (1835) *
George Sand (1804-1876), L’Orco*
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov (1814-1841), A Hero of Our Time (1840)
Romantic Realism
Honoré Balzac (1799-1850 ), PèreGoriot (1834)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881), Crime and Punishment (1866)
Realism
Gustave Flaubert ( 1821-1880), Madame Bovary (1857)
Leo Tolstoy (1828 -1910), Anna Karenina (1878)
Supplementary Readings
Plato, The Republic, Book 7*
Geoffrey Hartman, “Romanticism and “Anti-Self-Consciousness”*
*In the course packet (PIP Printers, 179 Main Street; call to order 344-9001).
Written Requirements
3 short class responses
3 two-page papers
2 four-page papers
1 final exam