EN2B0/EN3B0 THE EUROPEAN NOVEL - LECTURE LIST 2022-2023

Lectures will be given in (tab) on Wednesdays at 12.00 noon.

Lecture schedule

Autumn Term

Week 1: 5 October: Introduction: The European Novel

Week 2: 12 October: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

Week 3: 19 October: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857) Guest Lecture: Prof Katherine Astbury

Week 4: 26 October: Jane Austen, Emma (1815) Guest Lecturer: (Dr Michael Meeuwis)

Week 5: 2 November: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866) Guest lecturer: Prof Graeme Macdonald

Week 6: 9 November: Reading Week

Week 7: 16 November: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866) Guest lecturer: Dr Harry Warwick

Week 8: 23 November: Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)

Week 9: 30 November: Émile Zola, Germinal (1885) Guest lecturer: Prof Graeme Macdonald

Week 10: 7 December: Émile Zola, Germinal (1885) Guest lecturer: Prof Graeme Macdonald

Spring Term

Week 1: 11 January: Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks (1901)

Week 2: 18 January: Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925)

Week 3: 25 January: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925) Guest lecturer: tba

Week 4: 1 February: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958) Guest lecturer: Dr Harry Warwick

Week 5: 8 February: Assia Djebar, Algerian White (1996) Guest lecturer: Charlotte Spear

Week 6: 15 February: Reading Week

Week 7: 22 February: Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark (1996)

Week 8: 1 March: Javier Cercas, Soldiers of Salamis (2001) Guest lecturer: Dr Harry Warwick

Week 9: 8 March: Dulce Maria Cardoso, The Return (2016) Guest lecturer: Charlotte Spear

Week 10: 15 March: W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001)