Course: ING 212 18th Century British Fiction

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General

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This course aims to acquaint students with various forms of the 18th century British novel within a specific focus on form, style, and the birth of realism.
- Select activity Prof. Dr. ZEYNEP ZEREN ATAYURT FENGE
  
  Prof. Dr. ZEYNEP ZEREN ATAYURT FENGE URL
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Week 1
Introduction to the course
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Week 2
Discussion on the birth of the realistic novel
- Select activity The rise of the realist novel
  
  The rise of the realist novel File
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Week 3
Oroonoko as a realist novel
- Select activity Truth and fiction in Oroonoko
  
  Truth and fiction in Oroonoko URL
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Week 4
Oroonoko - themes
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Week 5
Colonialism in Oroonoko
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Week 6
Exploration of Moll Flanders as a realist novel
- Select activity "'A Life of Continu’d Variety': Crime, Readers, and the Structure of Defoe’s Moll Flanders"
  
  "'A Life of Continu’d Variety': Crime, Readers, and the Structure of Defoe’s Moll Flanders" URL
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Week 7
Satire and satirical novel
Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Parts I and II)
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  1996 film adaptation of the novel URL
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Week 8
Midterm exam
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Week 9
Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Part III)
- Select activity "The 'Motionless' Motion of Swift's Flying Island"
  
  "The 'Motionless' Motion of Swift's Flying Island" File
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Week 10
Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Part IV)
- Select activity "Swift's Attitude to Reason"
  
  "Swift's Attitude to Reason" File
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Week 11
Analysis of Samuel Richardson's Pamela as an epistolary novel
- Select activity "How Reliable a Narrator is Richardson's Pamela?"
  
  "How Reliable a Narrator is Richardson's Pamela?" File
- Select activity "Didacticism and the Male Reader in Samuel Richardson's Pamela"
  
  "Didacticism and the Male Reader in Samuel Richardson's Pamela" File
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Week 12
Analysis of Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews as a "comic epic poem in prose"
- Select activity "The Comic Novel and the Poor: Fielding's Preface to Joseph Andrews"
  
  "The Comic Novel and the Poor: Fielding's Preface to Joseph Andrews" File
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Week 13
Analysis of Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews as a parody of Pamela
- Select activity "Sham Marriages and Proper Plots Henry Fielding's Shamela and Joseph Andrews"
  
  "Sham Marriages and Proper Plots Henry Fielding's Shamela and Joseph Andrews" File
- Select activity "Joseph Andrews and the Control of the Poor"
  
  "Joseph Andrews and the Control of the Poor" File
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Week 14
Revision - a comparative analysis of the form and content of the works studied in the course and the ways in which these works could be situated in a critical dialogue are discussed.