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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2023 |
| Registration ID | ENGLH258A001 |
| Course Title | Desire and Domestic Fiction: The Development of the Novel in the 19th c. |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Gender and Sexuality Studies |
| Instructor | Sherman,Debora |
| Times and Days | TTh 02:30pm-03:55pm
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| Room Location | WDS |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2343 This course is designed as an introduction to the novel and to narrative theory in a trajectory loosely inscribed from the late 18th to the mid19th century, beginning with Richardsons Pamela and culminating in George Eliots extraordinary and exemplary Middlemarch. These several novels propose both an epistemologywhat we knowas well as an affective sensibility, or a structure of feeling, and we might question their purpose: to amuse, to entertain, certainly, but to educate, to compel, to convince us of a certain understanding of the world. As well, the course will look at the purchase of contemporary critical investments upon the act of reading itself or how reading is inflected through different models of critical and theoretical discourse: how narrative economies shape and determine the nature of our experience or what we can know of our experience; how narrative determines a subject "self" and how these selves are then transected by race, gender, class, and other social and political determinants; how narratives manage the less obvious and sublimated worlds of desire and the body's disruptions; how narratives negotiate the grotesque, the spectacular, and the sensational; and finally, how these variously constituted needs and desires become constructions of textual knowledge. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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