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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2018 |
Registration ID | RUSSB218001 |
Course Title | Coming-of-Age Novel c19 Europe |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Grigoryan,Bella |
Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1451 We will study a selection of nineteenth-century French, English, and Russian novels that are concerned with the education, development, and maturing of a young protagonist. These are novels that imagine the often difficult compromise between individual aspirations and the drive towards social integration. We will think about why the Bildungsroman - or, coming-of-age novel - turned out to be one of the most productive and popular literary forms of nineteenth-century Europe. We will study works by such authors as Pushkin, Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dostoevsky, Goncharov, Tolstoy, Flaubert and others. (Content will vary somewhat each time the course is offered.) We will think about the depiction of childhood and early adulthood; families; national and imperial polities and politics; the relationship between geographic, social, and economic mobility; domestic and professional selves and spaces; gender and sexuality. Approach: Critical Interpretation (CI); |
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