ENG 670A - The British Novel I

ENG 670A

The British Novel I

Catalog2026-2027

Credits3 units

LevelGraduate

Standard

Description

British fiction from its origins to about 1800. Readings in such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Johnson, Austen.

Lecture3

Offering

Offered: Every Fall

Terms

fall

Attributes

Standard

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.
articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in early British fiction.
produce written work that demonstrates familiarity with the criticism of a major subject in the field of early British fiction, and makes a contribution to the critical discussion.

ENG 670A

Catalog2026-2027

Credits3 units

LevelGraduate

Standard

Description

British fiction from its origins to about 1800. Readings in such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Johnson, Austen.

Lecture3

Offering

Offered: Every Fall

Terms

fall

Attributes

Standard

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.
articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories in early British fiction.
produce written work that demonstrates familiarity with the criticism of a major subject in the field of early British fiction, and makes a contribution to the critical discussion.