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The 18th and 19th Century English Novel

This course aims to introduce students to the origin, evolvement and trends of the development of the English novel in the 18th and 19th century, as well as to present them with its most important representative texts and authors and inform them about the generic traits and socio-historical context of the 18th and 19th-century English novel.

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Ivana V

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5 HOURS

5 LESSONS

The 18th and 19th Century English Novel

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Course Overview


The goal of this programme is to enable students' further independent assessing and rendering of narrative texts and to introduce them to expert vocabulary and theoretical concepts and terminology. This lesson series will be introduced with a contextualisation of the 18th-century English novel and English society after The Glorious Revolution of 1688, and students shall delve deeper into the rise of the middle class in economic and social power and its influence on the evolvement of novel. We begin reading and analysing Defoe's ‘Robinson Crusoe’, and discuss Individualism and early capitalism, the 18th-century novel in genre theory, and the character of Robinson Crusoe as Homo economicus - middle-class values' epitome. Furthermore, students proceed with English novel evolvement and the omniscient narrator in Henry Fielding's ‘Tom Jones,’ and continue with the evolvement of the social satire and narrative techniques in Swift's ‘Gulliver’s Travels.’ Special attention is dedicated to the branching of the Novel and the emergence of Gothic literature and its lasting influence. Turning to the 19th century, students address urbanisation, industrialisation, social mobility and the British Empire. They will analyse societal expectations and roles of women in Austen's ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and the novel as an ironic reflection of societal manners and sensibilities. After inspecting the singularity of the plot, the frame narrative and Romanticism and Victorian realism in Brontë's ‘Wuthering Heights.’ The programme wrap ups with formal and structural features of the novel, and social constructions, projections and limitations in ‘Great Expectations’ by Charles Dickens.

Course Content


15 LESSONS

15 HOURS Total Length

Lesson 1

Introduction: Contextualisation of the 18th-Century English Novel

60 minutes

Lesson 2

The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel

60 minutes

Lesson 3

Daniel Defoe's ‘Robinson Crusoe’: Crusoe as Homo-Economicus

60 minutes

Lesson 4

Fielding and the Epic Theory of the Novel

60 minutes

Lesson 5

Henry Fielding's ‘Tom Jones’

60 minutes

Lesson 6

Formal And Structural Features of the Novel: Social Satire and Narrative Techniques

60 minutes

Lesson 7

Satire in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ by Jonathan Swift

60 minutes

Lesson 8

Introduction to Gothic Fiction

60 minutes

Lesson 9

Horace Walpole: ‘The Castle of Otranto’

60 minutes

Lesson 10

Societal Expectations and Roles of Women in the 19th Century

60 minutes

Lesson 11

Jane Austen: ‘Pride and Prejudice’

60 minutes

Lesson 12

Romanticism and Victorian Realism in Brontë's Novels

60 minutes

Lesson 13

Emily Brontë: ‘Wuthering Heights’

60 minutes

Lesson 14

Social Constructions, Projections and Limitations in Dickens' Novels

60 minutes

Lesson 15

Charles Dickens: ‘Great Expectations’

60 minutes

Key Skills


Critical Thinking

Critical Reading

Literary Analysis

Historical Context

Educator

Ivana V

English Language Educator

Ivana has been teaching English professionally for over 10 years to students of all ages and backgrounds. She is dedicated to designing lessons that meet the needs, learning style and pace of the student.

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