• Required Texts
• Course Description and Goals
• Requirements and Grading
• Calendar of Assignments

• Dickens, Charles.  Great Expectations.  Penguin, 2002.  ISBN: 0141439564.
• Eagleton, Terry.  English Novel: An Introduction.  Blackwell, 2004.  ISBN: 1405117079.
• Eliot, George.  The Mill on the Floss.  Penguin, 2003.  ISBN: 0141439629.
• Fielding, Henry.  Joseph Andrews and Shamela.  Penguin, 1999.  ISBN: 0140433864.
• Forster, E. M.  A Passage to India.  Harvest Books, 1965.  ISBN: 0156711427.
• Joyce, James.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.  Penguin, 2003.  ISBN: 0142437344.
• Spark, Muriel.  The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.  Harper Perennial, 1999.  ISBN: 0060931736.

Catalogue Description: A study of the novel with particular attention to historical and artistic influences. May emphasize either British or American traditions. May be elected for up to six hours credit as topic changes.

The aims of our course are: 

• To acquaint you with the novel as a genre,
• To survey the history of the British novel, and
• To further develop your analytical and rhetorical skills.

• Active Participation (20%).  You'll be participating actively in this course if you attend class regularly (missing only for official, College-sponsored activities or for emergencies), meet all deadlines, and demonstrate your engagement in the course by contributing valuably to in-class discussions and by scoring consistently well on reading quizzes.  It is unlikely that you will receive full credit for participation if you miss more than two weeks of class.  It is the Department's policy that anyone missing more than three weeks of class (nine classes) for any reason will fail the course.  Understand that the Department does not distinguish between excused and unexcused absences.  Reading quizzes will come, if they do, at the beginning of the period.  If you are late for class, you will miss the quiz.  You may make up a reading quiz only if you are absent because of required participation in a College-sponsored off-campus event, and then you may submit on the day of your return to class 10 objective questions and answers about the assignment that was due when you were absent.
• Five Short Essays (50%).  A 350-word reflection on each of our novels (except for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) is due at the completion of our study of each novel.
• Long Essay (30%).  A 2500-word comprehensive essay--an essay that harvests the shorter ones (and includes a brief consideration of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) and draws on the critical commentaries of Eagleton and others--is due Friday, April 28.

• Active Participation (20%)
• Five Short Essays (50%)
• Long Essay (30%)