ENGL 424: Celebrity, Fame, & English Novelists

Course Description

A reading of the origins (1680) and height (1850) of English novel writing, from the early eighteenth-century to modern eras. Novelists may include Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Gaskell, and Woolf and include gothic, domestic, experimental, and serial formats. Students, including fiction writers, will be able to identify the origins and historical conditions that enable a new literary genre to appear and how they can mobilize this knowledge to continue and/or change novel-writing today.
Students cannot receive credit for bothENGL 424andENGL 524.