Overview
Description
British fiction from its origins to about 1800. Readings in such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Johnson, Austen.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Junior or Senior standing
ENG 303
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
- analyze eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
- articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
- identify the generic features of early fiction, and to articulate the relationship between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels and their modern counterparts.
- discuss the origins of the novel and of the concept of realistic narration.