English 151x. The Representation of Labor (Undergraduate/Graduate Seminar)

Instructor: Elaine Scarry
TBD | Location: TBD

How far narrative can accommodate and express the nature of human labor is explored in a study of three 19th-century British writers, Dickens, Eliot, and Hardy, as well as in novels and short stories by Turgenev, Zola, Tolstoy, Stowe, and Melville. Background readings on the social and philosophic theory of work.

Note: This course is a limited-enrollment seminar open to both undergraduate and graduate students, including PhD students in English (please contact me for enrolment details). Students in Harvard Masters' programs welcome.

This course satisfies the “1700-1900 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.