The English Novel


The English Novel, ENGL 43 Welcome to The English Novel, a course designed to investigate the literary, historical, cultural, social, and economic import of the extraordinary genre, technique, and device that we call “the novel.” We will begin the course by asking what it is that we mean when we call something a novel. What is a novel? Is it a distinct, identifiable object, such as a chair or a rock? Does it have a core set of attributes, or is it a shifting, amorphous phenomenon? Is a novel its content? What difference does the technology of the presentation of content make for what we consider a “novel”? We will also pose other questions. Given the title of this course, we will ask, what does it mean for a novel to be “English”? Is it an object that from the first moment announces its national origin? More >>	Professor Tyler Curtain, UNC Chapel Hill
			Required texts for this course include the following: McKeon, Michael. Theory of the Novel: A Historical Approach (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). Austen, Jane. Persuasion.; Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights; Cleland, John. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure; Defoe, Daniel. The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders &c; More >>

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