{"id":18922,"date":"2010-06-21T12:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18922"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:33:21","slug":"beginnings-of-the-modern-novel-in-the-early-18th-century-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=18922&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Beginnings of the Modern Novel in the Early 18th-century England"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: <\/strong>Beginnings of the Modern Novel in the Early 18th<\/sup>-century England <\/span>
\n Instructor: <\/strong>Assoc. Prof. Vanja Poli\u0107<\/span>
\n ECTS credits: <\/strong>6<\/span>
\n Language: <\/strong>English
\nDuration: <\/strong><\/b>4th<\/sup> or 6th<\/sup> semester<\/span>
\n Status: <\/strong>elective<\/span>
\n Enrolment requirements: <\/strong>completed Introduction to English literature<\/em>, enrolment in the 4th<\/sup> or 6th<\/sup> semester<\/span>
\n Course description: <\/strong>The course will acquaint the students with historical, social and cultural aspects of the 18th<\/sup> century England with a special focus on those social-historical traits which fostered the emergence of the modern novel. Within this broader context representative novels will be studied in more detail, such as Daniel Defoe\u2019s Moll Flanders<\/i> and Robinson Crusoe<\/i>, Aphra Behn\u2019s Oroonoko<\/i>, Jonathan Swift\u2019s Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/i>, Henry Fielding\u2019s Joseph Andrews<\/i> and Tom Jones<\/i>, Laurence Sterne\u2019s Tristram Shandy<\/i> and others. In the course the main tenets of the novel genre will be analyzed, as well as the types of the novel existent on the early 18th<\/sup> century literary scene. The phenomenon of the contemporary popularity of the genre will also be discussed, and its struggle to become accepted into the highbrow literature.<\/span>
\nObjectives:<\/strong> The aim of the course is to acquaint students with a period of English literary history and to teach them about the genre of the novel by studying the emergence of those novelistic tenets which will later become\u00a0 characteristic of the genre.
\nCourse requirements: <\/strong>The final grade is based on continuous assessment<\/span> which includes regular attendance, preparation for and participation in class, writing small assignments, timely submission of the final paper, and obligatory sitting for midterm and endterm exam. The paper is worth 35%, midterm and endterm exams are worth 50% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 15% of the final grade. Students must meet all<\/span> requirements of continuous assessment.<\/span>
\n The exact date of the mid-term exam is defined in cooperation with the students. Topics for the\u00a0main written assignment (student paper) are selected during week 8.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule<\/strong>
\n<\/b>WEEK 1: introduction into the social, cultural and economic circumstances of the early 18th<\/sup> century<\/span>
\nWEEK 2: key theories about the emergence of the modern novel<\/span>
\nWEEK 3: pretexts of the English novel<\/span>
\nWEEK 4: history, historiography or story \u2013 what is the novel genre in 18th<\/sup> c.<\/span>
\nWEEK 5: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders<\/i><\/span>
\nWEEK 6: Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders<\/i> and Robinson Crusoe<\/i><\/span>
\nWEEK 7: mid-term exam and paper topics<\/span>
\nWEEK 8: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/i><\/span>
\nWEEK 9: Swift continued<\/span>
\nWEEK 10: Henry Fielding, the father of the novel, Tom Jones<\/i><\/span>
\nWEEK 11: Fielding continued, Tom Jones<\/i> and Joseph Andrews<\/i><\/span>
\nWEEK12: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy<\/i><\/span>
\nWEEK 13: Sterne continued<\/span>
\nWEEK 14: final remarks, end-term exam<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading list:<\/strong><\/span>
\n Novels:
\n<\/strong>Behn, Aphra. Oroonoko<\/i><\/span>
\nDefoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders<\/i><\/span>
\nDefoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe<\/i> \u2013 selections<\/span>
\nFielding, Henry. Joseph Andrews<\/i> \u2013 selections<\/span>
\nFielding, Henry. Tom Jones<\/i> \u2013 selections<\/span>
\nSterne, Laurence. Tristram Shandy<\/i><\/span>
\nSwift, Jonathan. Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/i>
\nTheory: <\/strong><\/span>
\nHunter, J. Paul, Before Novels, The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth Century English Fiction<\/em><\/span>
\n McKeon, Michael, The Origins of the English Novel 1600-1740<\/em><\/span>
\n Richetti, John J., ed, The Cambridge Companion to The Eighteenth Century Novel<\/em><\/span>
\nRichetti, John J., Popular Fiction Before Richardson, Narrative Patterns 1700-1739<\/em><\/span>
\n Richetti, John J., The English Novel in History 1700-1780<\/em><\/span>
\n Spencer, Jane, The Rise of the Woman Novelist, From Aphra Behn to Jane Austen<\/em><\/span>
\n Watt, Ian, The Rise of the Novel<\/em><\/span>
\n Williams, Ioan, ed, Novel and Romance 1700-1800<\/em><\/span>
\n \u017dmega\u010d, Viktor, Povijesna poetika romana<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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