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| | Graduate Course Schedule--Spring 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15) |
 | | Concise or sprawling, the nineteenth-century novel became the prominent literary genre of the age. |
 | | In this course we examine the role of the nineteenth-century novel in both producing and expressing culture, and we explore some of its formal elements, the organizing principles that inform it. |
 | | Among our concerns are the novel's ability to describe and criticize society; recurrent figures of the orphan, the governess, the fallen woman, and the cad in their social trajectory; the persistence and evolution of the marriage plot; the subplot of empire; and narrative issues of point of view, dialogic form, and recurrent imagery and symbols. |
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