ENGL 641
Studies in Fiction
Fall 2025 · The Novel of/and Sentiment
Topics
- Sentimental fiction
- Origins of Gothic fiction
- Affective transfer
- Realism and novel history
Readings
- Possible reading: Samuel Richardson, Pamela
- Possible reading: Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey
- Possible reading: Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto
- Possible reading: Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
- Possible reading: Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest
- Possible reading: Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
- Possible reading: Selections from Michael McKeon ed. Theory of the Novel and The Novel ed. Franco Moretti
- Possible reading: Margaret Cohen, “Narrative Theory and Novel Theory”
- Possible reading: Elaine Freedgood, Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in Victorian Novel
- Possible reading: Yoon Sun Lee, The Natural Laws of Plot
- Possible reading: John Frow, Character and Person
- Possible reading: Barbara Johnson, Persons and Things
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Official course page ↗Fall 2025
- Departmental seminar description with reading information when supplied; not a full syllabus. Historical Fall 2025. Both primary and secondary lists are tentative.