Subject Area: English
This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: Creative Writing

This course introduces students to the study of the novel through a consideration of its diverse and changing forms since the eighteenth century. The focus of the course is on the ways the novel has persisted as a mass genre, adapting in response to shifts in its audiences and to the technologies through which they access long-form narratives. We will consider questions of canonicity, celebrity, global proliferation and contemporary reference in relation to the novel. Possible modules include: celebrity authors; nineteenth- and twentieth-century true crime writing; film and television remakes of canonical novels; the early novel as an adaptation of older narrative forms such as romance and epic.