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The 19th Century
Course code: FREN2106.
Course unit value: 0.5.
Through the work of novelists and poets, this course examines some of the major issues of nineteenth-century literature: its relations to revolution in the aesthetic, political and social spheres; its focus on the real and the everyday; its concern for formal experimentation; its preoccupation with a new category of experience, the modern.
Assessment: one unseen two-hour written examination (100%).
Tutor: Dr R-F Lack.
Preparatory reading and set texts:
- François René de Chateaubriand, Atala, ed. Pierre Moreau (Folio classique)
- Honoré de Balzac, La Peau de chagrin, avec dossier par Guillaume Kichenin (Folioplus classiques)
- Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, ed. Thierry Laget (Folio classique)
- Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, avec dossier par Dominique Carlat (Folioplus classique)
- Arthur Rimbaud, Poésies, Une saison en enfer, Illuminations, ed. Louis Forestier (Paris: Folio classique)
