The English Novel
X125 (4 semester units in English)
In reading classic works by authors such as Forster, Trollope, Dickens, Brontë, Eliot, Wilde, Hardy, Stevenson, and others, you survey the English novel, gaining perspective on this literary form with emphasis on how moral, social, psychological, political, and philosophical problems were perceived during the Victorian and Edwardian periods.
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GARY TOMBLESON, Ph.D., earned graduate degrees at UC Berkeley and UC San Diego. In addition to teaching on the campus at UC Berkeley, he has taught on ships at sea, in a federal prison, at an aeronautical university, a management school, and he designed a master of arts program in humanities and leadership.
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Textbook(s) for this course:
Aspects of the Novel
Author: E. M. Forster
Publisher: Harvest Books
Publication Year: 1956
ISBN: 0156091801
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Note: any complete edition
Barchester Towers
Author: Anthony Trollope
Publisher: Penguin Classic
Publication Year: 1983
ISBN: 0140432035
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Note: Required edition
Great Expectations (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), edited by Janice Carlisle
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Bedford Books/St Martin's Press
Publication Year: 1996
ISBN: 0312080824
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Note: Required edition
Heart of Darkness (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), edited by Ross C. Murfin
Author: Joseph Conrad
Publisher: Bedford Books/St Martin's Press
Edition: 2nd
Publication Year: 1996
ISBN: 0312114915
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Note: Recommended edition.
Jane Eyre, A Norton Critical Edition
Author: Charlotte Bronte
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Edition: 3d
Publication Year: 2001
ISBN: 0393975428
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Note: Recommended edition
The Mill on the Floss, A Norton Critical Edition
Author: George Eliot
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publication Year: 1994
ISBN: 0393963322
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Note: Recommended edition
The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Norton Critical Edition
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Edition: 2d
Publication Year: 2007
ISBN: 0393927547
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Note: Required edition
The Return of the Native, A Norton Critical Edition
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Edition: 2d
Publication Year: 2006
ISBN: 0393927873
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Note: Required edition
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Norton Critical Edition
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN: 0393974650
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Note: Recommended edition
Vanity Fair, A Norton Critical Edition
Author: William Thackeray
Publisher: W.W. Norton
Publication Year: 1994
ISBN: 0393965953
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Note: Required edition
Wuthering Heights (Case Studies in Contempory Criticism), edited by Linda H. Peterson
Author: Emily Bronte
Publisher: Bedford Books/St Martin's Press
Edition: 2d
Publication Year: 2003
ISBN: 0312256868
