EN201 THE EUROPEAN NOVEL - LECTURE LIST 2014/15

Lectures will be given in the Lecture Room MS 0.5 on Wednesdays at 12.00 noon.

Week Term 1

1. 1 October: Introduction to the Course / "The" "European" "Novel, Prof Medeiros

2. 8 October: "Werther and the Rise of the Self" (The Sorrows of Young Werther) Prof Hulse

3. 15 October: “Emma, Gender and Genre” (Emma) Dr Frith

4. 22 October: “The Lives of Things” (Madame Bovary) Ms Laura Wood

5. 29 October “Cities on the Hill” (Madame Bovary and Great Expectations) Ms Laura Wood

6. 5 November: Reading Week - No lecture

7. 12 November: “Narration and Nation” (Great Expectations) Dr Mathieson

8. 19 November: The Novel and Crime (GE, Crime and Punishment) Prof Medeiros

9. 26 November: “Naturalism” (MB, CP, Anna Karenina) Dr Macdonald

10. 3 December Anna Karenina Prof Medeiros

Week Term 2

1. 7 January: “Naturalism” (Germinal) Dr Macdonald - Handout Slides

2. 14 January: “The Novel and Class” (Germinal/The Quest) Dr Macdonald Slides

3. 21 January: “The Aesthetic of Refusal” (Hunger) Prof Mukherjee Handout

4. 28 January: “Doll’s Houses” (The Dangerous Age) Prof Mukherjee  Handout

5. 4 February: “Realism, Modernism and Self-conscious fiction” (The Quest, Hunger, The Dangerous Age) Prof Medeiros Dr Macdonald Slides

6. 12 February: Reading Week - No lecture

7. 18 February: “The Novel and Other Europes” (The Leopard) Prof Mukherjee Slides Handout 

8. 25 February: “The European Novel and ‘Globalisation’”( Germinal, Skylark, The Leopard, The Atom Station) Prof Medeiros

9. 4 March 'A Desert With Silent Voices: Antunes and Postimperial Europe' (The Land at the End of the World) Prof Medeiros  

10. 11 March Conclusion: Round Table Discussion: Ms Laura Wood, Dr Macdonald, Prof Mukherjee, Prof Medeiros

Week Term 3

1. 22 April: No Lecture

2. 29 April: Exam/Revision Lecture Dr Macdonald

3. 6th May: Exam Prep Prof Medeiros