Scandinavian 297A - ST-Hans Christian Andersen

Conducted in English. The fame of the Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) rests on the fame of some of his 166 tales and stories. Yet these tales comprise only a very small portion of his overall oeuvre, which includes six novels, several hundred poems, nearly forty works for the stage, five travel books, and two autobiographies. We will begin this class by examining some of his popular tales. During the course of the semester we will also read and discuss his novels The Improvisatore (1835) and The Two Baronesses (1848), a selection of Andersen's poems, and one of his plays ("The Moorish Girl").