ENGL 140G

Birth of the British Novel

The novel as we know it today was invented in the 18th century. Students study the origins of the novel and read several major works of 18th-century British fiction, such as Defoe's Moll Flanders, Richardson's Clarissa, Fielding's Tom Jones, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Students also study Samuel Johnson who, though not a novelist, was perhaps the greatest prose writer of the period.

Units: 3.0