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Course description

Taking Erich Auerbach's magisterial study, Mimesis (1946) as a starting point for broad survey of literary realism from ancient to contemporary times, the course examines a series of cases? Shakespearean tragedy, the eighteenth-century rise of the novel and the development of so-called `classic realist? fiction? Before considering realist writing in light of pressing critical and political questions in our time. The course introduces students to key theories and practices of Anglo-American and European literary realism thereby providing an historical, critical and theoretical foundation for advanced writing and research in the literary humanities.

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