ENGH357

Offers in depth study of prose fiction before 1900. Focuses on the history of the novel in either the United States or Britain or on a genre: captivity narrative, romance, realism, Bildungsroman, sensation fiction, epistolary novel. May also examine the ways in which the novel has engaged in social, cultural, or political questions, such as slavery, suffrage, democracy, the rise of the middle class, the development of working class culture and identity, sexuality, literacy and reading.

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