ENGL 285 Genre Studies:The British Novel

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition area of the core with a grade of C- or above. Explores British novels as sites of ongoing experimentation and development. Moves from the genre’s 18th century hybrid origins, to the romance and realist traditions of the 19th century, and into the modernist and postmodernist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries. Authors may include Swift, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, Hardy, Woolf, Ishiguro, and McEwan. (H2, G)