ENGL 20309 - The Heroine¿s Text: Form and Origins of the English Novel

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

English

Description:

Just how do novels think? How do novels experiment with voice, point of view, and the relation between time and history? The course will introduce students to the formal stylistic features of the novel, paying careful attention to how the novel's unique emphasis on multiple and conflicting points of view shapes our perspective as readers. In addition, we examine the novel's place in history as a distinctively modern literary form with its emphasis on the lived experience of particular individuals inhabiting a particular time and place. Accordingly, we follow the adventures of a series of clever and dauntless heroines from the Restoration to the early 20th century. Readings include: Aphra Behn's epistolary hybrid text, Love-letters between a nobleman and his sister, an early precursor of the novel form; Eliza Haywood's wildly improbable scandal fiction, Love in Excess; Defoe's portrait of a scheming criminal, the incomparable Moll Flanders; excerpts from Richardson's epistolary masterpiece, Clarissa; Austen's Mansfield Park; Brontë's Jane Eyre; and Forster's Howard's End.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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