The English novel. Part 1 of 2

Spurgin, Timothy. (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary: Professor Spurgin traces the novel from its beginnings in the 18th century, when Samuel Richardson penned Pamela, to its culmination in the work of the 20th century Modernists, including Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. He also relates plots and characters of particular novels to larger movements in English history. By placing more than two centuries of great English novelists in the context of British history, Professor Spurgin shows how their lives intersected with the creation of their art.

Record details

ISBN: 159803216X
ISBN: 9781598032161
Physical Description: sound recording
sound disc
6 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 70 p. ; 22 cm.)
Edition: Library ed.
Publisher: [Chantilly, VA] : Teaching Co., [c2006].

Content descriptions

General Note:	Compact discs.
Formatted Contents Note:	Lecture 1. Definitions and distinctions -- Lecture 2. The "Englishness" of the English novel -- Lecture 3. Historical context of early English fiction -- Lecture 4. The rise of the novel--Richardson and Fielding -- Lecture 5. After 1750--Sterne, Burney, and Radcliffe -- Lecture 6. Scott and the historical novel -- Lecture 7. Austen and the comedic tradition -- Lecture 8. Austen and the history of consciousness -- Lecture 9. Dickens--early works -- Lecture 10. Novelists of the 1840s--Thackeray -- Lecture 11. Novelists of the 1840s--the Brontës -- Lecture 12. Dickens--later works.
Participant or Performer Note:	Taught by Timothy Spurgin, Lawrence University.