Course: ING 212 18th Century British Fiction

Topic outline

General
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.
- Assoc.Prof. Dr. Zeynep Z. Atayurt-Fenge URL
Week 1
Introduction to the course
Week 2
Discussion on the birth of the realistic novel
- The rise of the realist novel File
Week 3
Oroonoko as a realist novel
- Truth and fiction in Oroonoko URL
Week 4
Oroonoko - themes
Week 5
Colonialism in Oroonoko
Week 6
Exploration of Moll Flanders as a realist novel
- "'A Life of Continu’d Variety': Crime, Readers, and the Structure of Defoe’s Moll Flanders" URL
Week 7
Satire and satirical novel
Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Parts I and II)
- 1996 film adaptation of the novel URL
Week 8
Midterm exam
Week 9
Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Part III)
- "The 'Motionless' Motion of Swift's Flying Island" File
Week 10
Analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (Part IV)
- "Swift's Attitude to Reason" File
Week 11
Analysis of Samuel Richardson's Pamela as an epistolary novel
- "How Reliable a Narrator is Richardson's Pamela?" File
- "Didacticism and the Male Reader in Samuel Richardson's Pamela" File
Week 12
Analysis of Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews as a "comic epic poem in prose"
- "The Comic Novel and the Poor: Fielding's Preface to Joseph Andrews" File
Week 13
Analysis of Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews as a parody of Pamela
- "Sham Marriages and Proper Plots Henry Fielding's Shamela and Joseph Andrews" File
- "Joseph Andrews and the Control of the Poor" File
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.