William Godwin, Caleb Williams (Broadview).John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford).Attention will be paid to gender issues, as well as to genre, style, and thematic concerns. We shall conclude with Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1796), the most sensational of the many Gothic novels of the 1790s, paired with Jane Austen’s witty parody of the Gothic, Northanger Abbey (1817). We shall then turn to two novels of the 1790s which take opposing stands in the “war of ideas” pitting Jacobite aganst anti-Jacobite novelists: Mary Hays’s radically feminist Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796), and Elizabeth Hamilton’s Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (1800), which features a parody of Hays herself. We shall begin with two first-person narratives: John Cleland’s erotic, or pornographic, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), followed by Sarah Fielding’s distinctly non-erotic novel, The History of Ophelia (1760). It will focus on six novels, grouped in three pairs. Regular attendance is required for a passing final grade (a maximum of two absences will be allowed except for documented medical or similar emergencies)Įxpected Student Preparation: Previous university-level course work in literature or cultural studies.ĭescription: This course will study developments in the English novel from the late 1740s until the turn of the century. Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford)Įvaluation: paper (50%), tests (40%), participation (10%).Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (Broadview).Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves (Norton).Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (Norton).Michael Alpert, ed., Two Spanish Picaresque Novels (Penguin).The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Hackett).Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur (Oxford).
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