satire
...of authors, usually including Horace, Juvenal, Rabelais, Moliere, Swift, Voltaire, Pope, Byron, Gogol, and Orwell, with selections from contemporary satirists as well. In addition to literary analyses, students may write an original satirical work of their own. The Romantic Revolution. A study of the revolution in human consciousness known as Romanticism. The course concentrates on the British Romantics, but also studies Romanticism as an international phenomenon. Writers studied include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Emerson, Thoreau, Lermontov. First semester. Warner Nineteenth-Century Russian Novel. This course examines the explosive growth of the Russian novel. Students will read major works by Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy and will become familiar with such themes as Slavophilism, realism, revolution versus tradition, and national i...