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Great Courses (2020), 24 lecture, 30 minutes each, 224 pages
Description
In the 24 lectures of Rise of the Novel, take a journey from the birth of the novel to the height of the form in the mid-nineteenth century, and better understand what this literary form can tell about human nature and the unquenchable thirst for great stories. With Professor Emeritus Leo Damrosch of Harvard University as the guide, dive into some of the most notable works that helped create and shape the novel over the course of more than three centuries.
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English
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[01] Rediscovering the Novel [02] Roman Novels: Satyricon and The Golden Ass [03] Don Quixote and the Picaresque Novel [04] Don Quixote: A Deeper Look [05] La Princesse de Clèves and the French Novel [06] The Realistic Novel: Robinson Crusoe [07] The Satiric Novel: Gulliver’s Travels [08] Manon Lescaut: A Tale of Passion [09] Joseph Andrews: An Epic Parody [10] The Psychological Novel: Clarissa [11] The Great Comic Novel: Tom Jones [12] Plot and Structure in Tom Jones [13] Philosophical Satire in France: Candide [14] Comic Travel Letters: Humphry Clinker [15] English Metafiction: Tristram Shandy [16] French Metafiction: Jacques the Fatalist and His Master [17] The French Romantic Novel: Julie [18] The Amoral Novel: Les Liaisons dangereuses [19] Pride and Prejudice: The Best English Novel? [20] Emma: Better Than the Best English Novel? [21] The German Romantic Novel: The Sorrows of Young Werther [22] The Horror Novel: Frankenstein [23] A French Masterpiece: The Red and the Black [24] An English Masterpiece: Middlemarch