FREN 412 - 17-18th Century Literature

Upper Division

Prerequisites
FREN 300; Minimum grade C-.

Study of the great writers of the age of Classicism: plays by Corneille, Moliére and Racine; the fables of La Fontaine; the ideas of Descartes and Pascal; Mme de Lafayette and the birth of the psychological novel; introduction to the great philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau. The theater of Marivaux and Beaumarchais; preromanticism in the novel.

Repeatable
No

Additional Notes
Previous course number: FREN 122

Course credits: 4