| CODE | ENG2179 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Nineteenth Century American Novel | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The purpose of this study-unit is to serve as a broad introduction to the thematic and formal qualities of nineteenth-century American fiction, and to demonstrate how a rich narrative tradition established itself. When Romanticism reached America around 1820, it coincided with the period of national expansion and the discovery of a distinctive American voice. The emergence of a national identity and the surging idealism and passion of Romanticism nurtured the masterpieces of ‘the American Renaissance’. This study-unit surveys the American novel in the nineteenth century, reflecting an identity shaped by developing concepts of freedom working on a Puritan tradition. The following novels will be for detailed study: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter; Herman Melville, Moby Dick; Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn. Reading List: Bercovitch, Sacvan, The Office of the Scarlet Letter (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991) Broadhead, Richard, ed., New Essays on Moby Dick (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) Budd, Louis J., ed., New Essays on Mark Twain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) Fishkin, Shelley Fisher, ed., A Historical Guide to Mark Twain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002) Gollin, Rita K. (ed.), The Scarlet Letter, New Riverside Editions (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002) Kaul, A. N., Hawthorne (Englewood-Cliff, N.J., Prentice Hall, 1966) McSweeney, Kerry, Moby Dick (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1986) Messent, Peter, The Cambridge Introduction to Mark Twain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stella Borg Barthet |
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