This unit of study explores the rise of novel reading in English as an educative, aesthetic and passionate practice from the 17th century to the present. The unit moves chronologically to examine how novels and the world came to be understood as mutually constitutive, how novels create and sustain attachments amongst their readers, how the genre of the novel became available for interrogations of national, gendered, "racial", sexual and class identity, of liberty and intellectual emancipation, and of pleasure.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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12 credit points at 1000 level in English |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Lucas Thompson, lucas.thompson@sydney.edu.au |
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Guest lecturer(s) | Bruce Gardiner, bruce.gardiner@sydney.edu.au |
Nicola Parsons, nicola.parsons@sydney.edu.au | |
Isabelle Hesse, isabelle.hesse@sydney.edu.au | |
Lecturer(s) | Lucas Thompson, lucas.thompson@sydney.edu.au |
Tutor(s) | Nicola Parsons, nicola.parsons@sydney.edu.au |
Matthew Sussman, matthew.sussman@sydney.edu.au | |
Blythe Worthy, blythe.worthy@sydney.edu.au |