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Course Information
ENGL 4103 British Novel
Description
A study of the development of the novel in England in the 18th and 19th centuries and British novelists from Defoe to Hardy.
Prerequisites
- ENGL 1113 or ENGL 1114
- ENGL 1213
- ENGL 2653
Course Catalog Information
Required Books
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Dracula by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780199564095Publication Date:The volume includes an introduction by Roger Luckhurst that considers the Gothic genre and vampire legend, discusses the vampire tale as sexual allegory, and outlines the social and cultural contexts that feed into the novel, including the New Woman, new technology, race, immigration, and religion. In addition, Luckhurst provides comprehensive explanatory notes that flesh out vampire mythology and historical allusions, plus an appendix featuring Stoker's short story, “Dracula’s Guest,” an early draft or abandoned chapter that was not published as part of the novel.
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Evelina by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780393971583Publication Date:Extracts from Burney's letters and journals and five contemporary reviews are also included. The critics include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John Wilson Croker, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, Martha G. Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, Susan Fraiman, and Margaret Anne Doody. A chronology and selected bibliography are included.
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Frankenstein by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780393927931Publication Date: 2011-12-16The best-selling student edition on the market, now available in a second edition. Almost two centuries after its publication, Frankenstein remains an indisputably classic text and Mary Shelley's finest work. This extensively revised Norton Critical Edition includes new texts and illustrative materials that convey the enduring global conversation about Frankenstein and its author.
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Jane Eyre by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780393264876Publication Date:This Norton Critical Edition includes the third-edition text ()—the last corrected by Charlotte Brontë—accompanied by revised and expanded explanatory footnotes.
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The Moonstone by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780140434088Publication Date:The Moonstone, a priceless yellow diamond, is looted from an Indian temple and maliciously bequeathed to Rachel Verinder. On her eighteenth birthday, her friend and suitor Franklin Blake brings the gift to her. That very night, it is stolen again. No one is above suspicion, as the idiosyncratic Sergeant Cuff and the Franklin piece together a puzzling series of events as mystifying as an opium dream and as deceptive as the nearby Shivering Sand.
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North and South by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780393979084Publication Date:This Norton Critical Edition of her best-selling novel is annotated and edited by preeminent Gaskell scholar Alan Shelston.
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Oliver Twist by
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780393962925Publication Date:The editor has corrected printers’ errors and annotated unfamiliar terms and allusions. Three illustrations by George Cruikshank and a map of Oliver’s London accompany the text.
The editions linked here are those available in the library. They may not be the editions you need for this class.
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