Lecture Programme 2011/12
EN201 THE EUROPEAN NOVEL - LECTURE LIST 2011/12
Lectures will be given in the Physics Lecture Theatre (over the bridge from the library) on Wednesdays at 12.00 noon.
Week Term 1
1 5 October Introduction to the Course/ "The" "European" "Novel" Dr Macdonald - Handout - Handout2
2 12 October "No Priest Attended Him" (The Sorrows of Young Werther) Dr Macdonald - Handout
3 19 October The Novel and Authorship (Frankenstein) Dr Jenainati
4 26 October The Novel and History (S and B) Dr Forman - Handout
5 2 November Realism and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (S and B, Mme B) Dr Macdonald - Realismslides Quotes Wood on Flaubert
6 9 November Reading Week - No lecture
7 16 November Readers in the Texts (S and B, Mme B, AK, CP) Dr Macdonald Readers.pdf
8 23 November Transparent Mind and Points of View in The Novel (GE) Prof Mee - Handout
9 30 November Women in/and The Novel (GE, Mme B, CP, AK) Dr Wood - Handout
10 7 December The Novel and Crime (GE, CP) Dr Mukherjee Slides
Week Term 2
1 11 January The Novel and the City (GE, CP, Hunger, The Quest) Dr Macdonald Slides
2 18 January Naturalism (Germinal) Dr Macdonald - Handout
3 25 January The Novel and Class (Germinal/The Quest) Dr Macdonald Slides
4 1 February Realism, Modernism and Self-conscious fiction (The Quest, Hunger, The Dangerous Age) Dr Macdonald Slides
5 8 February The Novel and Subjectivity (Hunger, The Dangerous Age) Dr Wood Handout
6 15 February Reading Week - No lecture
7 22 February 'The Banal and the Brutal' (Skylark) Dr Wood
8 29 February The Novel and Other Europes (The Leopard) Dr Mukherjee
9 7 March The European Novel and “Globalisation” (Germinal, Skylark, The Leopard, The Atom Station) Dr Macdonald
10 14 March Conclusion: Europe/Periphery/World (Werther to The Atom Station) Dr Macdonald
Week Term 3
1 25 April Revision Lecture Dr Macdonald
2 2 May Revision Lecture/Exam Prep Dr Macdonald/Dr Mukherjee