I am so tired of this Fin de Siecle course and reading all of these stupid, ill written books that do not follow reasonable order. I am sure that there are much better books from the 1880's to the 1890's than The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand and Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. Their characters act out of nature and jump from one idea to another without any connection. I am also tired of the lecture, where the professor throws out some general idea and asks us to "comment on it." No, your ideas are stupid and do not make any sense. I hate professor that make grand generalizations without any close reading of the text. This is not a graduate course.