ENG 329 - The Eighteenth Century British Novel.

A sophomore course in literature or consent of instructor. (3) H.

Critical study of the early period of the novel in English, focusing on the relationship of the genre to its historical background, as well as to earlier prose. Consideration of such figures as Behn, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Burney, Walpole, Mackenzie and Edgeworth.