The books that you will be required to read in this course will, for the most part, be drawn from texts written within the United Kingdom, not simply “books in English.” But we will also read from texts not defined in such a straightforward way to a national or geographical border. And we will read from a collection of essays that will help us to frame the issues at stake as well as start us on the way to answering the questions that we find of interest.

The first "books" that we read will be "free" texts that are found on various internet websites. Links to each of the requisite works are found below.

Required books

McKeon, Michael. Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).

Austen, Jane. Persuasion.; Roger Michell's adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion (1995).

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights; William Wyler's adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1939). The film versions of these titles can be found at The Media Resource Center.

Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; http://wiretap.area.com/ftp.items/Library/Classic/fannyhill.txt

Defoe, Daniel. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c; http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=370

De Quincey, Thomas. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater; http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=2040

Dickens, Charles. The Pickwick Papers;

Roy, Arundhati, The God of Small Things;

Haruki, Murakami, After the Quake.

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.

Cunningham, Michael. The Hours.

I will add other books as the semester goes on.

Required films are Kelly, Richard, Donnie Darko. Speilberg, Stephen. Minority Report; Shyamalan, M. Night, The Sixth Sense; Lynch, David, Mulholland Drive.