ENG 78 - The English Novel: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

The novel is an eighteenth-century invention which flourished during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In England, the mainstream tradition of the novel is realism: a depiction of life as it really is, with the kinds of details we readers are familiar with as we move through our world today, subject to familial, social, historical, cultural, and economic forces. Many of the works we will read in this course will be realist novels, but we will trace in them influences of Romanticism, the Gothic, and symbolism. We will also explore the "breaking" of form and artistic convention practiced by the Modernist novelists of the early 20th century and their successors. We will examine a number of themes the novels have in common: love of various kinds; the conflict between the individual's needs and desires and those of the family or of society; the place of the past in people's lives; the sexual and social "codes" the characters in these novels must master to succeed in life and achieve happiness; the role of social class and money in shaping the characters' fates and values. Moving outside the relatively comfortable sphere of national territory, we will also explore the mythology and practice of colonialism. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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