Course details

Name: ENGL - 256

Title: THE NOVEL TO 1900

Section: 01

Semester: Fall - 2023

Credits: 3

Description:
Early English novelists reveled in talking about bosomy women and the men who pursued them or innocent young men being seduced by busty wenches. Later novels avoided depicting licentious behavior, but they concerned themselves with the same themes: relationships, class mobility and its connection to conduct, and, of course, gender. Over the course of the term, we will read novels and focus on, among other things, how the depiction of relationships evolves from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and how contemporary representations of this fiction in series like "Sanditon" and "Bridgerton" are playing with ideas of class, sexuality, and agency.

We will read novels including Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders, Frances Burney's, Evelina, and the anonymously written novel The Woman of Colour, A Tale.

In addition to participating in class discussions, students will write short essays and have the opportunity to explore other genres of writing including book reviews.


Last updated on 2023-03-23 By Matthew Patricia (matthewp)

Schedule: Wednesday From 10:45 am To 1:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)

Teaching Faculty: Matthew Patricia (matthewp)

Is course canceled: No