This course studies the representation of reality in 19th century and
early 20th Century fiction through a reading of novels and short
stories by Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, Tolstoy, and Joyce, and of plays by
Ibsen and Chekhov.  The course focuses on the interrelationships
between Romanticism and Realism, Realism and Naturalism, and the
Symbolist/Decadent reaction to Realism in poetry (Baudelaire,
Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarme, T. S. Elliot, W.B. Yeats), fiction
(Huysmans, Wilde), and drama (Villers de l'Isle-Adam, Strindberg).