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Rise of the Novel: Exploring History’s Greatest Early Works

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<p>Take a literary journey over the course of three centuries to see how the novel was born and the many ways it shaped Western literature.</p>

Syllabus

01: Rediscovering the Novel
02: Roman Novels: Satyricon and The Golden Ass
03: Don Quixote and the Picaresque Novel
04: Don Quixote: A Deeper Look
05: La Princesse de Clèves and the French Novel
06: The Realistic Novel: Robinson Crusoe
07: The Satiric Novel: Gulliver’s Travels
08: Manon Lescaut: A Tale of Passion
09: Joseph Andrews: An Epic Parody
10: The Psychological Novel: Clarissa
11: The Great Comic Novel: Tom Jones
12: Plot and Structure in Tom Jones
13: Philosophical Satire in France: Candide
14: Comic Travel Letters: Humphry Clinker
15: English Metafiction: Tristram Shandy
16: French Metafiction: Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
17: The French Romantic Novel: Julie
18: The Amoral Novel: Les Liaisons dangereuses
19: Pride and Prejudice: The Best English Novel?
20: Emma: Better Than the Best English Novel?
21: The German Romantic Novel: The Sorrows of Young Werther
22: The Horror Novel: Frankenstein
23: A French Masterpiece: The Red and the Black
24: An English Masterpiece: Middlemarch
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Leo Damrosch

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