Major English Novels: Reading Romantic Fiction, Spring 2002

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Author:

Jackson, Noel

Subject:

Humanities, Social Sciences

Institution Name:

M.I.T.

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MIT OpenCourseWare

Grade Level:

Post-secondary

Abstract:

Subject studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the eighteenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Burney, Austen, Scott, Dickens, the Bront%s, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad. The class alternates between eighteenth and nineteenth century topics, and may be repeated for credit with instructor's permission.

Languages:

English

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