Foundations of the Novel

Catalog description

Introduces students to the first stages of novel writing in England and to historical and theoretical issues relating to the novel's "rise" to the dominant genre of the modern era. Eighteenth-century works of fiction are long; however, texts selected for this course are less long. They include Defoe's Moll Flanders , Richardson's Pamela and Fielding's Joseph Andrews . Enrollment limited to 30.