ENG 2533 credits
ENG 253: Novel
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- This course introduces students to the history of the novel in Britain and America, from the form’s origins in the 1700s through the present. By reading signature fictions by authors ranging from Daniel Defoe and Jane Austen to Henry James and Gary Shteyngart, students will explore how the novel first emerged and has reinvented itself ever since.
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- Kate Brown
- Timothy Bryant
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