Spring Course: Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature

RUSS 4811-3. Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature Surveys Russian literature from 1800 to 1900, emphasizing major authors, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy and Chekhov. The course explores the development of major literary movements and genres; the relationship between literature and historical, political and social phenomena; and other topics central to the nineteenth-century Russian tradition. Taught in English. Same as HUMN 4811. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.