Topic for Fall 2013: Literature and Transgression in the Nineteenth Century. Law, transgression, and literature in post-Revolutionary France. Topics include the police and crime, gender identity, authority and changing family structures, new literary forms. Authors may include Chateaubriand, Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Rimbaud. Theoretical texts in psychoanalysis, deconstruction, and cultural theory.