Major Fiction

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We read newspapers for news about our world. But we also read fictionnovels and storiesto tell us about how it feels to live in the world. Sometimes they are like our world, and sometimes very different. In this course we'll read fiction that offers realistic portraits of 19th century society, like Charles Dickens' Great Expectations or Anne Bronte's The Governess, alongside more fantastical portraits like "Rip van Winkle" or contemporary scifi. We will sample fiction from the 19th through the 21st century to trace the course of fiction from romance to realism through modernism to contemporary genre, like dypstopian masterpieces like Station Eleven or Severance. We will also consider about what they say about their culture and society. Prerequisites: 76-101 or 76-102 or ( 76-106 and 76-107 ) or ( 76-107 and 76-108 ) or ( 76-106 and 76-108 )