EN201 THE EUROPEAN NOVEL - LECTURE LIST 2019-2020

Lectures will be given in (S0.11) on Wednesdays at 12.00 noon.

Lecture schedule

Autumn Term

Week 1: 2 October: Introduction: The European Novel

Week 2: 9 October: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)

Week 3: 16 October: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (1857)

Week 4: 23 October: Jane Austen, Emma (1815) Guest Lecturer: Dr Michael Meeuwis

Week 5: 30 October: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866) Guest lecturer: Prof Pablo Mukherjee

Week 6: 6 November: Reading Week

Week 7: 13 November: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866) Guest lecturer: Prof Pablo Mukherjee

Week 8: 20 November: Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1877)

Week 9: 27 November: Émile Zola, Germinal (1885) Guest lecturer: Prof Graeme Macdonald

Week 10: 4 December: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

Spring Term

Week 1: 8 January: Franz Kafka, The Trial (1925) Guest lecturer: Prof Thomas Docherty

Week 2: 15 January: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard (1958)

Week 3: 22 January: Lídia Jorge, The Murmuring Coast (1988)

Week 4: 29 January: Assia Djebar, Algerian White (1996)

Week 5: 5 February: Seamus Deane, Reading in the Dark (1996) Guest lecturer: Prof Thomas Docherty

Week 6: 12 February: Reading Week

Week 7: 19 February: W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (2001)

Week 8: Javier Marías, Thus Bad Begins (2016)

Week 9: 4 March: Diana Evans, Ordinary People (2018)

Week 10: 11 March: Olivia Laing, Crudo(2018)

Summer Term

Week 1: 22 April: No lecture

Week 2: 29 April: Revision Lecture: Sally Rooney, Normal People (2019)

Week 3: 6 May: Revision Lecture Guest Lecturer: Prof Graeme Macdonald