Course Title:
Rise of the Novel 18th to 19th Century

Course Code: ENG-505
Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents:

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

• Joseph Andrews (1742)

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

• Pride and Prejudice (1813)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

• A Tale of Two Cities (1859)

George Eliot (1819-1880)

• The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

• The Return of the Native (1878)

Recommended Books:

• Bloom, Harold. (1988). George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss (Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations). Chelsea House Pub.
• Allen, Walter. The English Novel.
• Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. London, 1996.
• Battestin, Martin C. The Moral Basis of Fielding’s Art: A Study of Joseph Andrews.
• Beer, Gillian. George Eliot. Brighton, 1986.
• Butt, John. Fielding.
• Church, Richard. The Growth of the English Novel.
• Collins, Philip. Dickens: The Critical Heritage. 1971.
• Copeland, Edward & McMaster, Juliet. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. 1997.
• Elliot, Albert Pettigrew. Fatalism in the Works of Thomas Hardy. 1935.
• Forster, E.M. Aspects of the Novel. (Pelican Paperback).
• Gard, Roger. Jane Austen’s Novels: The Art of Clarity. 1998.
• Hardy, Barbara. The Novels of George Eliot. London, 1959.
• Kettle, Arnold. Introduction to the English Novel (Vol. I & II).
• Lubbock, P. The Craft of Fiction. Jonathan Cape.
• Mac Donaugh, Oliver. Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds. 1993.
• Neill, Edward. (1999). Trial by Ordeal: Thomas Hardy and the Critics (Literary Criticism in Perspective). Camden House.
• Neill, Edward. The Politics of Jane Austen. 1999.
• Smith, Grahame. Charles Dickens: A Literary Life. 1996.
• Thomas, Jane. Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent. 1999.
• Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel. Chatto & Windus, London, (1955-7).