#  English 251. The Representation of Labor in the 19th-Century Novel: Seminar 

 



Instructor: [Elaine Scarry](/people/elaine-scarry)  
Wednesday, 3:00-5:45pm | Location: TBD  
*Enrollment: Limited to 15 students*

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.



 



 

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