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Class number:
3183
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Title: The Novel and the Real World |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 18 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 |
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End date: Thursday, December 21, 2023 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Benedict, Barbara |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written from 1700-1900. |
Course Description:
This seminar explores the development of the realistic novel in short, eighteenth-century fictions about the quest to discover identity. Readings include Gothic novels with supernatural effects, semi-fictional and entirely fictional travel tales, novels about sex-workers, servants and libertines, and realistic sketches of city life by essayists and cultural critics. Through these works, we will trace the development of a genre which centers on the experience of the individual in a world bristling with dangers and adventures and peopled by rogues, fools, heroes and scoundrels as each individual forges a unique self. |
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Course Syllabus:
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