Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: The most important literary innovation of the 18th century was the birth of the novel. We will examine the modern social and cultural forces crucial to and inextricable from this watershed development: the emergence of liberalism, conservatism, feminism, class, secular culture, the sex/gender system, individualism, and the separation of public and private spheres.