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Fall 2008
ENGL 333 Eighteenth-Century British Fiction Instructor: Sarah Ellenzweig This course will introduce you to the significant works of British eighteenth-century fiction. We will seek to situate the period’s prose fiction in a variety of literary and cultural contexts in order to understand the intellectual and cultural impact of what was then regarded as a radical, new format for storytelling -- the novel. In particular, the course will explore the novel’s engagement with the following watershed developments in the period: the rise of the modern individual and the ideology of individualism; the emergence of the middle class and the crisis of the aristocracy; the separation of the private and public spheres; the consolidation of capitalism and civil-society; the cultural production of national identity; and the development of liberalism, conservatism, and secular culture. Authors will include: Behn; Defoe; Swift; Haywood; Richardson; Fielding; Cleland; Sterne; Smollet; Scott; Hays; Radcliffe; and others.
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