Annotation
LECTURE:
Literature in the Age of Reason. Late 17th-century and 18th-century literature is discussed with special emphasis on the rise of the English novel from Defoe to Sterne and the Gothic novel.
SEMINAR:
OBJECTIVES
To provide a survey of canonical works of 18th-century English fiction. To focus both on individual texts and on the broader issues: origin and rise, production and consumption of the novel. To train students in critical reading and in expressing their judgement in a written form.
MATERIAL
Defoe, Moll Flanders or Robinson Crusoe, Fielding, Tom Jones, Sterne, Tristram Shandy, a Gothic novel, xerox packet and handouts, video.
ASSESSMENT
Presentation, longer essay, test.