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 106-017 The Novel & the Invention of the Modern

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Simon During

Prerequisites

Usually admission to the Postgraduate Diploma or Fourth Year Honours in English, see Honours entry.

Semester

2 (view timetable)

Contact

A 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject examines the novel as a key genre within the ongoing history of modernity. It will trace formal and thematic developments within the genre in its current form from its emergence in the 18th-century to the present. It will analyse how the novel has registered social and cultural changes, characteristic of modernity, over that period, focussing on the novel's representation of everyday life especially as organised through class and sexuality. It will also address such matters as the genre's increasing cultural value and the transformations of its relations to other media, old and new. It aims to provide students with a general map of the novel's history against the backdrop of a society undergoing modernisation.

Assessment

Written work totalling 5000 words.

Prescribed Texts
  • S Richardson, Pamela. Penguin.
  • D Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Norton.
  • H James, The Ambassadors. Norton.
  • T Hardy, Jude the Obscure. Norton.
  • V Woolf, To the Lighthouse. Penguin.
  • J Rhys, Good Morning Midnight. Norton.
  • G Indiana, Resentment. Anchor.
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