Rise of the Novel: Exploring History’s Greatest Early Works

<p>Take a literary journey over the course of three centuries to see how the novel was born and the many ways it shaped Western literature.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Rediscovering the Novel
• 02: Roman Novels: Satyricon and The Golden Ass
• 03: Don Quixote and the Picaresque Novel
• 04: Don Quixote: A Deeper Look
• 05: La Princesse de Clèves and the French Novel
• 06: The Realistic Novel: Robinson Crusoe
• 07: The Satiric Novel: Gulliver’s Travels
• 08: Manon Lescaut: A Tale of Passion
• 09: Joseph Andrews: An Epic Parody
• 10: The Psychological Novel: Clarissa
• 11: The Great Comic Novel: Tom Jones
• 12: Plot and Structure in Tom Jones
• 13: Philosophical Satire in France: Candide
• 14: Comic Travel Letters: Humphry Clinker
• 15: English Metafiction: Tristram Shandy
• 16: French Metafiction: Jacques the Fatalist and His Master
• 17: The French Romantic Novel: Julie
• 18: The Amoral Novel: Les Liaisons dangereuses
• 19: Pride and Prejudice: The Best English Novel?
• 20: Emma: Better Than the Best English Novel?
• 21: The German Romantic Novel: The Sorrows of Young Werther
• 22: The Horror Novel: Frankenstein
• 23: A French Masterpiece: The Red and the Black
• 24: An English Masterpiece: Middlemarch