Spring 2024 Comparative Literature: English GU4822 section 001

19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN NOVEL

19TH CENTURY EUROPEAN NOV

Call Number 12315
Day & Time
Location
TR 4:10pm-5:25pm
141 Uris Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Nicholas Dames
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

The European novel in the era of its cultural dominance.  Key concerns: the modern metropolis (London, Paris, St. Petersburg); the figures of bourgeois narrative (parvenus, adulterers, adolescents, consumers) and bourgeois consciousness (nostalgia, ressentiment, sentimentalism, ennui); the impact of journalism, science, economics. Authors to be drawn from: Goethe, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert, Turgenev, Zola.

Web Site Vergil
Department English and Comparative Literature
Enrollment 47 students (60 max) as of 9:05PM Monday, December 2, 2024
Subject Comparative Literature: English
Number GU4822
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20241CLEN4822W001