CPLS BC 3149x - Urchins,Adulteresses,and Orphans:The Specter of the Other in Nineteenth-Century Bourgeois Literature

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Barnard College

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Exploration of the 19th-century bourgeois fascination --as evidenced in narrative texts produced and consumed by that class--with marginalized figures from the fringes of acceptable society. Texts consist mainly of novel/short stories featuring protagonists from the poor urban massess, transgressive females such as the adulteress and the prostitute, and the lineage-less figure so popular in the 19th-century narrative, the orphan outcast. - TBD Prerequisites: Not offered in 2008-2009. General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT).

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.barnard.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 854-5262

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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