Graduation Year
2016
Date of Submission
12-2015
Document Type
Campus Only Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Literature
Reader 1
James Morrison
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Abstract
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between the city and the individual in literature, thereby acknowledging the anthropomorphic qualities we endow with our cities and in turn, how these qualities consolidate into the trope of the city character. We build this understanding by discussing the social, moral, political, literary, etc. associations of the city, and how these lend themselves to expressions of human energy or reflections of human character. These understandings are then given form through close readings of Gustave Flaubert’s Sentimental Education and Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment.
Recommended Citation
Garske, Kevin T., "Society and Suffering: City as Character in 19th Century Realism" (2016). CMC Senior Theses. 1219.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1219
This thesis is restricted to the Claremont Colleges current faculty, students, and staff.
