| Edition |
Library ed. |
| Description |
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses. Literature & English language |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Timothy Spurgin, Lawrence University. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
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In two containers (26 cm). |
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GMD: sound recording. |
| Summary |
Professor Spurgin traces the novel from its beginnings in the 18th century, when Samuel Richardson penned Pamela, to its culmination in the work of the 20th century Modernists, including Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. He also relates plots and characters of particular novels to larger movements in English history. By placing more than two centuries of great English novelists in the context of British history, Professor Spurgin shows how their lives intersected with the creation of their art. |
| Contents |
Lecture 1. Definitions and distinctions -- lecture 2. The "Englishness" of the English novel -- lecture 3. Historical context of Early English fiction -- lecture 4. The rise of the novel--Richardson and Fielding -- lecture 5. After 1750--Sterne, Burney, and Radcliffe -- lecture 6. Scott and the historical novel -- lecture 7. Austen and the comedic tradition -- lecture 8. Austen and the history of consciousness -- lecture 9. Dickens--early works -- lecture 10. Novelists of the 1840s--Thackeray -- lecture 11. Novelists of the 1840s--the Brontës -- lecture 12. Dickens--later works. |
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Lecture 13. After 1870--review and preview -- lecture 14. Eliot and the multiplot novel -- lecture 15. Eliot and the unfolding of character -- lecture 16. Hardy and the natural world -- lecture 17. James and the art of fiction -- lecture 18. Conrad and the "scramble for Africa" -- lecture 19. Ford and Forster--transition to Modernism -- lecture 20. Lawrence and the "Bright Book of Life" -- lecture 21. Joyce--Dublin and Dubliners -- lecture 22. Joyce--realism and anti-realism -- lecture 23. Woolf and the poetic novel -- lecture 24. The impact of the novel. |
| Subject |
English fiction -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
159803216X |
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9781598032161 |
| Music No. |
2429 Teaching Co. |
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