ENGL 247

Summer 2013 All Classes

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The British Novel

Credit: 3 hours.

A study of some of the more noteworthy and influential writers of the last two hundred and fifty years. The course traces the development of the novel as a genre that both celebrated and critiqued Britain and British nationalism. Examines how the novel has been important culturally over time.

Prerequisite: Completion of the Composition I requirement.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Lit & Arts

Cultural Studies - Western

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ENGL 247 class schedule data for summer 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	37323	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:00AM -11:50AM	MTWR	1026 Lincoln Hall	Wood, G	Part of Term: S1 Date Range: 05/13/13-06/07/13 Degree Notes: Literature and the Arts, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: This course spans two centuries of modern British fiction. The history of those two centuries involves the rise and fall of the British Empire and two World Wars?a tumultuous period of continual and often drastic social change that will inform the reading of our five classic novels by Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Woolf, and the contemporary writer Ian McEwan. But we will pay equal attention in our classes to the development and changes in novelistic technique associated with these writers, from the radical innovations in ironic discourse and subjective characterization in Austen, to the social panorama of Dickens, to further experiments in narrative representation, language, and point of view in Woolf and McEwan. Reading load for the course will be heavy given its brevity. Students should be prepared to be discussing and writing about one novel, while already reading ahead to the next. In sum, the rewards of this course will go hand in hand with its challenges.