ENGL 261
Adultery in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
Last Offered Fall 2008
Division I Writing Skills
Cross-listed COMP 259 / WGST 259
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

In this tutorial, we will read five novels written between 1850 and 1899, all of which focus on the figure of the adulteress: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850), Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary (1856), Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (1873-77), Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest (1894), and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899). For each week of class, students will read one of these primary texts, as well as a selection of secondary literature that will allow us to understand, over the course of the semester, how and why the adulteress played a key role in the cultural imagination of Europe and the United States during this time. All works not originally written in English will be read in English translation.
The Class: Format: tutorial; students will meet with the professor in pairs, with one student from each pair writing a 5-page paper for each class session
Limit: 10
Expected: 10
Class#: 1129
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on completion of weekly reading and writing assignments, active engagement during tutorial sessions, and completion of a final synthetic writing assignment
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: students who have already taken at least one course devoted to literature at Williams
Unit Notes: meets 1700-1900 requirement in English major only if registration is under ENGL
Distributions: Division I Writing Skills
Notes: meets Division 1 requirement if registration is under COMP or ENGL; meets Division 2 requirement if registration is under WGST
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 259 Division I WGST 259 Division I ENGL 261 Division I
Attributes: ENGL 1700-1900 Courses

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