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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
english
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Leona Toker
Coordinator Office Hours:
Wednesdays 12:15 - 13:00
Teaching Staff:
Prof Leona Toker
Course/Module description:
Study of the narrative experiments conducted by three pioneering novelists of the eighteenth century, combined with the discussion of the reflections of their contemporary culture in their works.
Course/Module aims:
Study of the genre experimentation that led to the rise of the classical English novel.
Study of the semiological aspects of three novels (by Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne): use of the external frame of reference (cultural history) to explain narrative details and analysis of the patterns in which these details enter in the specific texts.
Study of the carnivalesque and the oppositional narrative modes as practiced in the three novels.
Study of the ethics of narrative form, that is, of the ethical meaning of narrative structures.
Attention to the analogies between the techniques of 18th century fiction and those of modernist and post-modernist novels.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
understand the vocabulary of 18th century fiction as different from that of the present-day English;
recognize the cultural phenomena evoked in the narratives;
be able to analyze stylistic and structural features of the three novels and to write academic papers on the basis of this analysis;
be able to apply the methodology of the structural and semiotic analysis as well as approaches to the study of narrative form to other texts as well.
Attendance requirements(%):
minimum 75
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
The course is interactive. It takes the shape of classroom discussions based on a close reading and structural analysis of three selected representative texts.
Course/Module Content:
Three selected novels by 18th-century English novelists, representing different pathways in the development of the classical English novel.
Required Reading:
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
Additional Reading Material:
RECOMMENDED FURTHER READINGS
Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, Roxana, The Journal of the Plague Year
Richardson, Pamela, Clarissa
Fielding, Joseph Andrews, Amelia
Sterne, A Sentimental Journey
Smollett, Humphry Clinker
Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield
Jane Austen, Emma
Walter Scott, Waverley
Anne Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho
BACKGROUND
Battestin, Martin C. The Providence of Wit: Aspects of Form in Augustan Literature and the Arts
Beasley, Jerry C. Novels of the 1740s
Castle, Terry. “The Carnivalization of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative.” PMLA 99/5: 903-16.
Dobrée, Bonamy. English Literature in the Early 18th Century
Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic
Karl, Frederick. A Reader's Guide to the Development of the English Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Lynch, Deirdre, The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture and the Business of Inner Meaning
---------. Loving Literature: A Cultural History
Mullan, John. Sentiment and Sociability: The Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Piper, William Bowman. Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Poovey, Mary. A Proper Lady and a Woman Writer
Van Ghent, Dorothy. The English Novel: Form and Function
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel
NARRATOLOGY
Bakhtin, Mikhail. Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics (the chapter on genre)
---------. Rabelais and His World
Bal, Mieke. Narratology
Booth, Wayne. The Rhetoric of Fiction
Genette, Gérard. Narrative Fiction
Iser, Wolfgang. The Act of Reading
Rimmon-Kenan, Shlomith. Narrative Fiction
Toker, Leona. Eloquent Reticence
---------. Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction
---------. “The Semiological Model in the Teaching of Literature: Discussing the Title of Austen’s Mansfield Park.” Literatūra 50/5 (2008): 91–97 (http://www.literatura.flf.vu.lt/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Lit_50_5_91-97.pdf ).
Journals: Eighteenth Century Fiction
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
THE THREE NOVELISTS
Defoe
Backsheider, Paula R. Daniel Defoe: Ambition and Innovation.
Brooks, Douglas. “Moll Flanders: An Interpretation,” Essays in Criticism 19 (1969): 46-59.
Chaber, Lois A. “Matriarchal Mirror: Women andCapital in Moll Flanders,” PMLA 97/2 (1982): 212-26.
Curtis, Laura Ann. The Elusive Daniel Defoe
Faller, Lincoln B. Crime and Defoe
Krier, William J. “A Courtesy Which Grants Integrity: A Literal Reading of Moll Flanders,” ELH 38: 397-410.
Pollak, Ellen. “Moll Flanders, Incest and the Structure of Exchange,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 30/1 (1989): 3-21.
Richetti, John J., Defoe's Narratives: Situations and Structures.
Starr, G. A. Defoe and the Spiritual Autobiography
---------. Defoe and Casuistry
Sutherland, James, Defoe
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Moll Flanders
Zhang, John. “Defoe’s Moll Flanders,” Explicator
47/ 5 (1989):13-15.
Fielding
Alter, Robert. Fielding and the Nature of the Novel
Baker,Sheridan. “Bridget Allworthy: The Creative Pressures of Fielding’s Plot.” In the Norton Critical Edition of Tom Jones, ed. Sheridan Baker.
Battestin, Martin C. A Henry Fielding Companion
Harrison, Bernard. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
---------. “Gaps and Stumbling-Blocks in Fielding.” Connotations 3/2 (1993-1994): 147-72.
Toker, Leona, Eloquent Reticence
---------. Towards the Ethics of Form in Fiction
Twentieth-Century Interpretations of Tom Jones
Wright, Andrew, Henry Fielding: Mask and Feast
Sterne
Burckhardt,Sigurd. “Tristram Shandy and the Law of Gravity.” ELH 28 (1961): 70-88.
Byrd, Max. Tristram Shandy
Cash, Arthur H. “The Sermon in Tristram Shandy,” ELH 31 (1964): 395-417.
---------. “The Birth of Tristram Shandy: Sterne and Dr. Burton.” In Studies in the Eighteenth Century, ed. R. F. Brissenden.
Farrell, William J. “Nature versus Art as a Comic Pattern in Tristram Shandy,” ELH 63: 16-35.
Graves, Lila V. “Locke’s Changeling and the Shandy Bull,” Philological Quarterly 60 (1981): 257-64.
Iser, Wolfgang. Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy
Lanham, Richard A. Tristram Shandy: The Games of Pleasure
Moglen, Helene. The Philosophical Irony of Laurence Sterne
Myer, Valerie Grosvenor, ed. Laurence Sterne: Riddles and Mysteries
Rogers, Pat. “Tristram Shandy’s Polite Conversation,” Essays in Criticism 32/4 (1982): 305-20.
Rosenblum, Michael. “The Sermon, the King of Bohemia, and the Art of Interpolation in Tristram Shandy,” Novel 10 (1977): 472-91.
Towers, A. R. “Sterne’s Cock and Bull Story,” ELH 24 (1957): 12-29.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 100 %
Assignments 0 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
Additional information:
Students are expected to have read the materials assigned in advance of the classes on these materials. Written work includes a short paper (300-400 words) on one of the novels and a final analytical essay(1200-1500 words) on another novel. The short paper doubles as practice for the final essay.
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