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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>
Rise of the Novel: Exploring History’s Greatest Early Works
Overview
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
- By This Professor
Taught by
Leo Damrosch
