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The early eighteenth century saw the birth of that most successful literary genre, the modern novel. In this seminar, we will read and analyse closely two outstanding early English novels which both deserve to be read for their own merits and for what they signify within the history of the novel as a whole: Defoe’s Moll Flanders (1722) and Fielding’s Joseph Andrews (1742). For a more comprehensive understanding on the culture of the early eighteenth century, we will read (or view) and discuss some short texts, for instance excerpts from the libretto of John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera (1728), William Hogarth’s The Harlot’s Progress (1731), a number of letters from Samuel Richardson’s Pamela (1740) and Fielding’s satire Shamela (1741). We will also watch and analyse two films on the eighteenth century, Tony Richardson’s film version of Joseph Andrews (1977) and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975). All additional texts and films are readily available or will be made so and therefore need not be bought.
Texts:
Daniel Defoe. Moll Flanders. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: Norton, 2003. ISBN 978-0-393-97862-9
Henry Fielding. Joseph Andrews and Shamela. Ed. Thomas Keymer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-953698-6 |
