Literature 3142 - History and Novel:Scott,Eliot,Hardy

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Bard College

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The 19th-century English novel takes as its grand preoccupation and theme the shaping power of history. In this seminar, students read three major figures who defined the novel- both in form and content-as deeply indebted to the historical imagination. What privileged access does the novelist enjoy when representing historical forces and changes in fictional form? How is history the sign under which the novel announces its own manifesto for realism? Texts under consideration include Walter Scott's Waverley, Old Mortality, and Heart of Midlothian; George Eliot's Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda; Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles and The Well-Beloved. Readings in historiography complement investigations of historical narrative.

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4.00

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Lecture

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www.bard.edu

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(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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