ENGL 261T(F) Adultery in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Same as Comparative Literature 259T and Women's and Gender Studies 259T) (W)

COMP 259T(F) Adultery in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (Same as English 261T and Women's and Gender Studies 259T) (W)
In this tutorial, we will read five novels written between 1850 and 1899, all of which focus on the figure of the adulteress: Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1856), Lev Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (1873-77), Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest (1894), and Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899). For each week of class, students will read one of these primary texts, as well as a selection of secondary literature that will allow us to understand, over the course of the semester, how and why the adulteress played a key role in the cultural imagination of Europe and the United States during this time. Students will meet with the professor in pairs, with one student from each pair writing a 5-page paper for each class session. All works not originally written in English will be read in English translation.
Format: tutorial. Evaluation will be based on completion of weekly reading and writing assignments, active engagement during tutorial sessions, and completion of a final synthetic writing assignment.
No prerequisites. Enrollment limit: 10 (expected: 10). Preference will be given to students who have already taken at least one course devoted to literature at Williams.
Tutorial meetings to be arranged. CASSIDAY