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Concentrating primarily but not exclusively on the novel, this module examines a series of major issues in relation to nineteenth-century French literature: its relations to revolution in the aesthetic, political and social spheres; its awareness of the world beyond the frontiers of Metropolitan France; its focus on the seemingly real and the everyday; its formal experimentation; its preoccupation with the new category of experience called 鈥榤odernit茅鈥�. We will read texts featuring women characters in a variety of contexts, such as novels by Chateaubriand, Sand, Nerval, Flaubert, and Zola; we will also study a selection of essay, poems and prose poems by Baudelaire which focus on the allegorisation of women as figures of modernity.
Required Primary Texts:
Fran莽ois-Ren茅 de Chateaubriand, Atala-Ren茅, (Pocket Classique)
George Sand. Indiana. (Folio Classique)
Gerard de Nerval. Sylvie. (Petits Classiques Larousse)
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (Flammarion)
Charles Baudelaire, 'Le Peintre de la vie moderne' and a selection from Les Fleurs du mal and Le Spleen de Paris (pdf provided on course website)
脡mile Zola, Nana, ed. Henri Mitterand (Folio Classique)
Please note: This module description is accurate at the time of publication. Amendments may be made prior to the start of the academic year.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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