The Modern Novel

Catalog description

This course examines the novel as it develops in western and European culture from about 1800 through the present. During this course, students read approximately eight to ten novels per semester from a variety of cultural and historical periods. Students also become acquainted with the relevant historiographical sources, theory and issues pertaining to the period and write a variety of short papers for this course. Prerequisite(s): EH 105 or EH 124.