RLFR 307(S) Nineteenth-Century Novel

A study of four of the greatest novels ever. These novels helped define what the novel is and could be. We will read Le Père Goriot by Balzac, Le Rouge et le Noir by Stendhal, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, and Germinal by Zola. We will read these texts within the social and historical context of nineteenth-century France and investigate how the novel developed as a form over the course of the century. Conducted in French. Requirements: three short papers and a longer final paper. Prerequisite: French 109 or 110 or higher or permission of instructor.

Hour: GREENBERG