Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: EPIC AND NOVEL

Department: Classical Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Why did novelists of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries allude to classical epic, and how did they transform the genre? We will address these questions, reading the Homeric and other ancient epics alongside such novels as Fielding's Tom Jones, Eliot's Middlemarch, and Joyce's Ulysses. Cross-list: ENGL 335.