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Nov 26, 2024
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ENG 470A - The British Novel I (3 units)
British fiction from its origins to about 1800. Readings in such authors as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne, Johnson, Austen.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior standing OR ENG 303 .
Units of Lecture: 3
Offered: Every Fall - Even Years
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting the prose fiction of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
2. analyze eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels in their cultural and historical contexts.
3. articulate the premises and assumptions of different critical approaches and apply them to literature using literary-critical vocabulary.
4. identify the generic features of early fiction, and to articulate the relationship between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels and their modern counterparts.
5. discuss the origins of the novel and of the concept of realistic narration.
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