Module Identifier | EN35220 | ||
Module Title | NARRATION AND INNOVATION: PROSE FICTIONS 1660-1800 | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr Sarah H Prescott | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Course delivery | Seminars / Tutorials | 20 Hours 10 x 2 hrs | |
Assessment | Semester Assessment | Continuous Assessment: 2 essays (2,500 words each) | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. |
1660-1740
Margaret Cavendish, The Blazing World (1666)
Thomas Dangerfield, Don Tomazo (1680)
John Bunyan, The Life and Death of Mr Badman (1692)
William Congreve, Incognita (1692)
Aphra Behn, The Unfortunate Happy Lady (1698) [all in Paul Salzman (ed.), An Anthology of Seventeenth-Century Prose Fiction, Oxford, 1991)]
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves (1678, trans 1679) [Oxford]
John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) [Penguin]
Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (1719-20) [Broadview Press]; The Injur'd Husband and Lasselia (1720s) [Kentucky]
Daniel Defoe, Roxana; or, The Fortunate Mistress (1724) [Everyman]
1740-1800
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones (1749) [Penguin]
Eliza Haywood, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless (1751) [Broadview]
Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote (1752) [Oxford]
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (1759-1767) [Penguin]
Selection from Oriental Tales ed. by Robert Mack (1760s-1780s) [Oxford]
Frances Sheridan, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761) [Oxford]
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764) [Oxford]
Ann Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance (1790) [Oxford]
Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney (1796) [Oxford]
Selective Bibliography
Nancy Armstrong, Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel(Oxford, 1987)
Lennard Davies, Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel (Columbia, 1983)
J. Paul Hunter, Before Novels: The Cultural Context of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction (Norton, 1990)
Richard Kroll (ed.) The English Novel: 1700 to Fielding Vol 1; and Vol 2 Smollett to Austen (Longman 1998)
John Richetti, The English Novel in History 1700-1780 (Routledge, 1998)
John Richetti (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Cambridge, 1996)
Jane Spencer, The Rise of the Woman Novelist from Aphra Behn to Jane Austen (Blackwell, 1986)
William Warner. Licensing Entertainment: the elevation of novel reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (California, 1998)
Ian Watt, The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson and Fielding (Chatto, 1957)