French 363 - ROMANCE & ROM NOVL 19TH C FRN

One of the most ancient and universal feelings, love is also infinitely elusive and as much about the self as it is about anything else. In this course, intended for literary as well as non-literary students, we will examine what the Romantic imagination has made of the mystery, magic and travails of love and how it confronted some of the major cultural and social issues of its time: marriage and happiness, exotism, class divide, love and death. Novels by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chateaubriand, George Sand, Lamartine, Alexandre Dumas and Nerval.