| Course Title: Anna Karenina and Contexts: 'Tolstoy on Love, Death, and Family Life' |
| Start Date: 09/03/2025 End Date: 12/16/2025 |
| Term: Fall Semester 2025 |
| Description: Anna Karenina (1873) is one of a series of important works Tolstoy wrote pondering love, death, the nature of happiness, and the foundations of family life. Our reading of Anna Karenina will be the centerpiece of this course which will also include works ranging from Childhood (1852) to The Kreutzer Sonata (1889), which shocked and repelled readers with its unsparing depictions of human sexuality and murderous jealousy. Film versions of works will be screened. |
| Distribution(s): I - Humanities , TP - Topics Course |
| Academic Level Of Course: Undergraduate | Credits:4.00 |
| Faculty | Phone | Email address |
| Daniel Brooks | dbrooks@mtholyoke.edu |
| Meeting Dates | Method | Meeting days | Meeting times | Building name | Room | Frequency |
| 09/03/2025 - 12/16/2025 | Seminar | Tuesday and Thursday | 01:45PM - 03:00PM | LIBR - Williston Memorial Library | 618 | Weekly |
| Requisite Courses | ||
| None |
| Comments |
| Additional Comments |
| Taught in English. |
| Course Tags |
| Cross-listed Sections |
| None |
| Course Availability | ||||
| Section status: Open | Capacity: 18 | Enrollment: 17 | Available: 1 | Waitlist: 0 |
BOOK INFORMATION
| Book List | Required | Publisher Full Price |
| Title: Anna Karenina Author: Tolstoy, Copyright: Edition: Volume: ISBN: 9780143035008 Publisher: Penguin Classics |
Required | 20.00 |
| Additional Book Comments |
| This is the complete book list for this class. |
| Instructor's comments about the book list: The only required text for this course will be Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' (Penguin Classics edition, 2004, trans. Pevear & Volkhonsky). New versions can be found for $20 or less online (Amazon, bookshop.org, etc.), but it's not difficult to find this edition in many used bookstores for less money. The cover depicts a pair of hands and a purple flower. Other editions are permitted, but highly discouraged -- we all want to be on the same page, literally and metaphorically! The other, supplementary readings will be made available to you as PDFs, copies, or via the library reserve shelf, etc. Please don't hesitate to contact me at dbrooks@mtholyoke.edu if you have any questions! |