This course will offer a survey of major works, authors, and trends
in Russian literature from the end of the eighteenth century to the
latter part of the nineteenth, the golden age of Russian
literature.  Readings (all in translation) and discussion will focus
primarily on masterworks of prose fiction, but some drama and poetry
may also be included. Attention will be paid to the social
and historical background of the readings, as well as to developments
in other arts in Russia and to cultural relations between Russia and
other countries. Authors whose work we will read include Pushkin,
Gogol, Turgenev,  Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky, and others.