ENGL 333 - The Rise of the Novel

Credits: (3)
This course studies the emergence of the novel as a literary form and a cultural force in the early modern, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods. The course draws upon authors from the British Isles, the Americas, and the European continent, and considers modes of prose fiction ranging from amatory to picaresque and sentimental to satirical. Major figures studied may include Miguel de Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and James Fenimore Cooper.