Sense and Sensibility (1811), first drafted in the 1790s, responds to many eighteenth-century issues, as its title suggests. We shall conclude with two of Jane Austen’s novels. We next turn to William Godwin’s Caleb Williams (1796), a powerful and complex novel written in response to government repression of the day. We shall then study an example of epistolary fiction: Frances Burney’s bestselling comic novel, Evelina (1778). From the 1760s, we shall explore the first Gothic novel: Horace Walpole’s pioneering The Castle of Otranto (1764). We shall begin in the 1750s with Samuel Johnson’s remarkable oriental tale, Rasselas (1759). Attention will be paid to gender issues, as well as to genre, style, and thematic concerns.
Expected Student Preparation: Previous university-level course work in English.ĭescription: This course will study developments in the English novel from the mid-eighteenth century until the early 1800s.
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