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Pre-marital sex, adultery, divorce, birth control, women's education, women's right to political representation, these controversial issues were at the core of debates over woman's changing legal, social, and cultural status and of her role in the family in eighteenth-century France. We will examine woman's changing role as represented in the fiction and philosophical texts of the French Enlightenment.

The goal of this course is to familiarize students with linguistic concepts that can help them to understand and analyze literature. For example, we will see how the author's choice of verbs, pronouns and tenses can indicate the degree to which he identifies with the narrator. Readings will cover 17th to 21st century French Literature.

This course will examine the role of the exotic in nineteenth-century French narrative works. We will explore various aesthetic and epistemological functions of exoticism and the problems and paradoxes it raises in its evolution as a romantic, realist and decadent topos.