This fifth installment of the lecture series on the history of the major
genres in English literature is going to provide a survey of the rise
of the novel in England the early eighteenth century up to the first
decades of the nineteenth century. In terms of periods, the lecture is
going to cover in depth the Enlightenment and Romanticism, investigating
not only the works of chief English canonical novelists such as Daniel
Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson and Laurence Sterne, but also
considering the contribution of, by now, canonical female writers such
as Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood or Frances Burney. Of course, the Gothic
novel, with its various facets, will also feature in the latter part of
the lecture).
Students in the BA-LKM programme who take this lecture for
Module 1.2 also have to take one of the courses "Introduction to
Literary and Cultural Studies" (Module 1.1) during this term and finish
Module 1 with a written exam covering both courses.
- Dozent/in: Anja Müller