Week 1: January 19, 21

Tues: Introduction to the course: how to read, how to write a précis

SECTION 1: Theoretical Approaches

Thurs: Traditional, I
Erich Auerbach. Mimesis

• Chap. 14, "The Enchanted Dulcinea," 334-358
• Chap. 16, "The Interrupted Supper," 395-433 (on Manon)

Week 2: January 26, 28

Tues: Traditional, II
Ian Watt. The Rise of the Novel

• "Realism and the Novel," 9-34
• "The Reading Public . . . ," 35-59
• "Fielding and the Epic Theory . . . ," 239-259
• "Realism and the Later Tradition," 290-301

Thurs: New Historicist and Other Poststructuralist, I
Michael McKeon. The Origins of the English Novel, 1600-1740.

• "Introduction: Dialectical Method in LIterary History," 1-22
• Chapter 1: Destabilization of Generic Categories, 25-64
• Chapter 2: Evidence of the Senses, 65-89
• Chapter 3: Histories of the Individual, 90-128

Week 3: February 2, 4

Tues: New Historicist and Other Poststructuralist, II
Nancy Armstrong. Desire and Domestic Fiction

• "Introduction: The Politics of Domesticating Culture," 3-27
• Chap. 1, "The Rise of Female Authority in the Novel," 28-58
• Chap. 2, "The Rise of the Domestic Woman," 59-95
• Chap. 3, "The Rise of the Novel," 96-160

Thurs: New Historicist and Other Poststructuralist, III
Terry Castle. Masquerade and Civilization:

• Chap 1, "The Masquerade and Eighteenth-Century Englahd," 1-51
• Chap. 2, "Travesty and the Fate of the Carnivalesque," 52-109
• Chap. 3, "Literary Transformations," 110-129
• Chap. 4, "The Recarnivalization of Pamela" 130-176

Jane Spencer. The Rise of the Woman Novelist

• Chap 1, "Wit's Mild Empire: The Rise of Women's Writing," 3-40

SECTION 2: The Theory: New Readings

Week 4: February 9, 11

Tues: The Terrain
Nisbet and Rawson, eds. Cambridge History, Vol. IV: 18th C.

• Chap. 7: "Prose Ficton: France," 210-237
• Chap. 8: "Prose Fiction: Great Britain," 238-263
• Chap. 9: "Prose Fiction: Germany and the Netherlands," 264-281

  DISCUSSION: these images against the sources:

  • Quixote
  • Simplizissimus/Insel Felsenburg
  • Gil Blas

Thurs: Hamburger, The Logic of Literature.

• 1. Introduction, 1-7
• 2. Foundations in Theory of Language, 8-54
• 3. The Fictional or Mimetic Genre, 55-231 (passim, but do read part of it, since it's the how-to)

Week 5: February 16, 18

Tues: M. M. Bakhtin. The Dialogic Imagination

• "Forms of Time and of the Chronotrope in the Novel," 84-258

---. Speech Genres and Other Late Essays

• -"The Problem of Speech Genres," 60-102

Jauss, Question and Answer

• -"D. Rousseau's Nouvelle Hélöise and Goethe's Werther," 105-196

 SECTION 3: Class Structures and Morality Fables

Thurs: Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Julie, ou la nouvelle Helöise

• Part 1, 25-155
• Part 5, 343-409
• rest of novel, passim

**Precis due: Rousseau

Week 6: February 23, 25

Tues: Choderlos de Laclos, Liaisons dangereuses, Part 1 & last letter of book
Oliver Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield, Chaps. 1-7

SECTION 4: Travelling into the Unknown

Thurs: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (all)
**Precis due: Defoe

Week 7: March 2, 4

Tues: Voltaire, Candide (all)

Thurs: Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey (all)

Week 8: March 9, 11

Tues: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (all)

Thurs: DISCUSSION
**Precis due: any other novel

SECTION 5: Up the Social Hierarchy, 1 -- the males

Week 9: March 23, 25

Tues: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Books 1-5; rest of novel passim

Thurs: day off -- use the time to finish your first short paper!

Week 10: March 30, April 1

Tues: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Volume 1
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Book 1
***First short paper due

Thurs: Karl P. Moritz, Anton Reiser (all)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister, Book 1

SECTION 6: Up the Social Hierarchy, 2 -- the females

Week 11: April 6. 8

Tues: Charlotte Lennox, The Female Quixote, esp. Books 1-3, rest passim

Thurs: Samuel Richardson, Pamela, Book 1
Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, 1-83 (until she arrives at Bath from Virginia)

Week 12: April 13, 15

Tues: Sophie von LaRoche, The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim (all)

Thurs: DISCUSSION
***Second Short Paper Due

SECTION 7: Withdrawal and Horror

Week 13: April 20, 22

Tues: Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, all (it's 116 pp.)
Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk, Vol. 1

Thurs: Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Vol. 1 (rest passim)

Week 14: April 27, 29

Tues: Marquis de Sade, Justine, 447-530 (to her flight to Saint-Marcel and Rodin)

Tues: Bonaventure, Nachtwachen, 1st and 2nd Night Watches

Week 15: May 4, 6

Tues: ***Abstract of final paper due

Thurs: Concluding Discussion

** Final Paper Due: Wednesday, 12 May 1999, 5:00 pm to my office -- official exam time.