Exotic Hero(in)es

FRIT-F435 — Fall 2025

Instructor
Guillaume Ansart
Location
LH 016
Days and Times
TuTh 11:10A-12:25P
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).


FRIT-F 435   #30307       11:10A-12:25P        TuTh     LH 016     Prof. Guillaume Ansart

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