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Major European Novels

Art: Gustave Doré, Gustave Doré, Illustration for John Milton’s “Paradise Lost“, 1866.…, 1866 · Public domain

Instructor: Prof. Alvin Kibel
Term: Fall 2008
Level: Undergraduate
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Major European Novels

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Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Don Quixote . Chapters I-XXIII.

Lecture 3: Don Quixote . Chapters XXIV-XXX.

Lecture 4: Don Quixote . Chapters XXXI-end of excerpt.

Lecture 5: Balzac. Père Goriot , pp. 7-84. (Signet edition.)

Lecture 6: Balzac. Père Goriot , pp. 85-236.

Lecture 7: Balzac. Père Goriot , pp. 237-end.

Lecture 8: Stendhal. The Red and the Black . Book I, chapters 1-XXIII.

Lecture 9: Stendhal. The Red and the Black . Book I, chapters XXIV-end; Book II, chapters I-IV.

Lecture 10: Stendhal. The Red and the Black . Book II, chapters V-XXVIII.

Lecture 11: Stendhal. The Red and the Black . Book II, chapters XXIX-end.

Lecture 12: Flaubert. Madame Bovary . Part I; part II, chapters 1-5.

Lecture 13: Flaubert. Madame Bovary . Part II, chapters 6-11.

Lecture 14: Flaubert. Madame Bovary . Part II, chapters 12-end; part III, chapters 1-5.

Lecture 15: Flaubert. Madame Bovary . Part III, chapters 6-end.

Lecture 16: Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment . Part I; part II, chapters 1 and 2.

Lecture 17: Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment . Part II, chapters 3-end; part III, chapters 1 and 2.

Lecture 18: Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment . Part III, chapters 3-end; part IV; part V, chapters 1 and 2.

Lecture 19: Dostoyevsky. Crime and Punishment . Part V, chapters 3-end; part VI; epilogue.

Lecture 20: Tolstoy. Anna Karenina . Parts I, II.

Lecture 21: Tolstoy. Anna Karenina . Parts III, IV.

Lecture 22: Tolstoy. Anna Karenina . Part V.

Lecture 23: Tolstoy. Anna Karenina . Part VI; part VII, chapters 1-12.

Lecture 24: Tolstoy. Anna Karenina . Part VII, chapters 13-33; part VIII.

Lecture 25: To be announced

Lecture 26: To be announced