The Eighteenth-Century Novel

Spring 2010 ENGL 2560X S01

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Instructor: Melinda Alliker Rabb

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Course Description

The seminar considers major texts, theories, and concepts that have accounted for the emergence of the novel as a dominant modern literary form. Probable 'long' 18th-century texts are Behn's Love Letters, Defoe's Roxana, Richardson's Clarissa, Fielding's Tom Jones, and Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Related reading includes work by Watt, Bakhtin, Lukacs, Shklovsky, Alter, Bowers, and McKeon.