What is the novel? How does it differ from a short story, an epic, a film, or a memoir? It may be tempting to refer to any work of narrative fiction as a novel, but the novel has its own history and generic features. These special qualities will be the topic of this advanced course in English Literature. Students will read theories of the novel – ones that emphasize its historical emergence as well as its formal structure – alongside excerpts from early (pre-) novels, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice (1813), and Ian McEwan's Atonement (2001). This historical tour of the novel from the late seventeenth century to the present will help students broaden their understanding of literary history as well as allow for further practice in formal literary analysis.
- Dozent/in: Natalie Roxburgh