ENGL 402
The Historical Novel Spring 2016
Division I
Cross-listed COMP 403
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Setting a novel in a prior time period risks estranging a reader, yet the genre has roused deep-rooted interest, intense critical debate, and aesthetic daring. In this course, we will explore the complex and layered uses of a historical past in literary works of the seventeenth through twenty-first centuries, by way of novels by Madame de Lafayette, Scott, M. Shelley, Dickens, Eliot, Woolf, Morrison and Sinclair/ Vollman. Exploring the uses of gothic and sensational effects, dystopian and utopian possibilities, and fractured time, we will consider the aesthetic and political experiments historical novels have spawned. We will do so in the context of the sustained critical engagement with the genre by such thinkers as Lukacs, Benjamin, Adorno, Jameson, McKeon and Moretti.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 15
Expected: 15
Class#: 3362
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: one 5- and one 15-page paper
Prerequisites: a 300-level ENGL course or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: English majors
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 402 Division I COMP 403 Division I
Attributes: ENGL Criticism Courses
ENGL Literary Histories B

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