CL3059 Romantic Lit And Its Discontents: Flaubert, Sand, Baudelaire
Studies in the literary works, poetic aspirations and legal trials of Flaubert, Sand, and Baudelaire, while tracing their tremendous influence on the 19th-century French literature and their contribution to the emergence of modernity. Readings include Indiana, Madame Bovary, Trois contes, Bouvard et Pecuchet, and Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal among other works, as well as a range of critical and philosophical commentaries.