RUSS 216 - The Family Novel in Nineteenth-century Russia

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD, WR

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” Tolstoy wrote in his famous opening to Anna Karenina. Most nineteenth-century Russian writers explored the conflicts of family life, and some of the major ideological debates of the century were waged on the pages of the family novel. Besides Anna Karenina, readings for the course will include Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons, Saltykov-Shchedrin’s The Golovlev Family, and works by radical writers who envisioned the end of the traditional family. Enrollment limit: 25.
Instructor: S. Stefani