- Instructor
- Guillaume Ansart
- Location
- LH 120
- Days and Times
- TR 3:00P - 4:15P
- Course Description
We will read six short French novels from the 18th and 19th centuries, written by men and women, featuring exotic—and often erotic—heroines and/or heroes: Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes (1721), Mme de Graffigny’s Lettres d’une Péruvienne (1747), Voltaire’s L’Ingénu (1767), Chateaubriand’s Atala (1801), Mme de Duras’s Ourika (1823), and Mérimée’s Colomba (1840).
Two in-class exams and one take-home paper with rewrite.
Image credit: Cover illustration of Ourika by Mme de Duras, Flammarion (2010), via Amazon.com
A&H
Thèmes et perspectives littéraires et culturels: Exotic Hero(in)es
