Dates: 09/05 - 12/21
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			6:00 pm 9:00 pm JRC 222

Subject: English (Grad) (GENG)

CRN: 42462

Lecture

St Paul: John Roach Center 222

Requirements Met:
     Global Literature

  Raymond MacKenzie

In this course, we'll study the eighteenth-century novel as it developed both in Britain and on the Continent. Early novels often took the form of autobiographies, and we'll examine the connection between life-writing and novel-writing. In tracing the birth and growth of what came to be a major genre, we'll be exploring class, gender, cultural and economic issues, and their relationship to what we now call the novel's realism. The writers we will study include Eliza Haywood, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Choderlos de Laclos, Denis Diderot, and Goethe. The course takes its title from Ian Watt's classic study from 1957, which tied the novel closely to the emergent capitalism of the early eighteenth century. To what extent has has recent criticism and theory moved beyond Watt? Do we still see the phenomenon of the rise of the novel in the same way he did? Among the many critics and theorists of the novel, we will read work by Michael Foucault, Michael McKeon, Walter Benjamin, and Nancy Armstrong. This course satisfies the pre-1830 British Literature distribution requirement (previous curriculum) or the early British/American Literature and Literature in a Global, Transatlantic, or Transnational perspective requirements (new curriculum). Prerequisite: GENG 513 or permission of the instructor.

3 Credits