ENG280
Anti-Semitism, Assimilation, and the European Novel, 1850-1935
English
BC
Subject code
ENG
Course Number
280
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
S. Freedman
Course Long Title
Anti-Semitism, Assimilation, and the European Novel, 1850-1935
Description
The Dreyfus Affair (1894-1906) is the seminal moment to understand anti-Semitism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This course studies the multiple differences in how Jews appear in European novels and examines Jewish assimilation among composers, authors, and painters such as Mendelssohn, Mahler, Schoenberg, Schnitzler, Pissarro, and Chagall. It investigates both positive Jewish images and anti-Semitism in such novels as Celine’s Journey to the End of the Night, Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend, Melville’s epic poem Clarel, and Roth’s Goodbye Columbus.
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(English: Post-1800), (English: R, E, DL)
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years