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ENGL 641

Studies in Fiction

3 credits · Graduate

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
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Laurence Sterne, Sentimental Journey
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Horace Walpole, Castle of Otranto
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Selections from Michael McKeon ed. Theory of the Novel and The Novel ed. Franco Moretti
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Margaret Cohen, “Narrative Theory and Novel Theory”
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Elaine Freedgood, Worlds Enough: The Invention of Realism in Victorian Novel
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Yoon Sun Lee, The Natural Laws of Plot
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: John Frow, Character and Person
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Barbara Johnson, Persons and Things
    Listed reading
Sources