ENG 350
English Novel
Gunn
 

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(All materials are available on reserve at Mantor Library.)
 

Richardson

Michelle Burnham, “Between England and America: Captivity, Sympathy, and the Sentimental Novel,” in Lynch and Warner, eds., Cultural Institutions of the Novel, 47-72.

Michael McKeon, “Richardson and the Domestication of Service,” in Origins of the English Novel, 357-381.

Ian Watt, “Love and the Novel: ‘Pamela,’” in The Rise of the Novel, 135-173.
 

Sterne

Robert Alter, “Sterne and the Nostalgia for Reality,” in Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre, 30-56.

Viktor Shklovsky, “Sterne’s Tristram Shandy: Stylistic Commentary,” in Lemon and Reis, eds., Russian Formalist Criticism: Four Essays, 27-57.

Dorothy Van Ghent, “On Tristram Shandy,” in The English Novel: Form and Function, 83-98.
 

Austen

Alistair Duckworth, “Emma and the Dangers of Individualism,” in The Improvement of the Estate, 145-178.

Claudia Johnson, “Emma: ‘Woman, Lovely Woman, Reigns Alone,’” in Jane Austen: Women, Politics and the Novel, 121-143.

Stuart Tave, “The Imagination of Emma Woodhouse,” in Some Words of Jane Austen, 205-255.
 
 

Eliot

Margaret Homans, “Eliot, Wordsworth, and the Scene of the Sisters’ Instruction,” Critical Inquiry 8 (1981): 223-241.

Mary Jacobus, “The Question of Language: Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss,”  Critical Inquiry 8 (1981): 207-222.

U. C. Knoepflmacher, “Tragedy and the Flux: The Mill on the Floss,” in George Eliot’s Early Novels: The Limits of Realism, 162-220.
 

Joyce

S. L. Goldberg, “Art and Life: The Aesthetic of the Portrait,” in Schutte, ed., Twentieth-Century Interpretations of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 64-84.

Cheryl Herr, “The Sermon as Massproduct,” and Hugh Kenner, “‘O, an Impossible Person,’” in Reynolds, ed., James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays, 81-107.

John Paul Riquelme, “The Preposterous Shape of Portraiture: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” in Teller and Tale in Joyce’s Fiction: Oscillating Perspectives, 48-85.
 

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