The Eighteenth-Century Novel

The origin and development of British prose fiction from 1660 to 1830. Topics may include other genres like travel narratives, sermons, fables, etiquette manuals, and modes of writing like the picaresque, the sentimental, the seduction narrative, the moral, the epistolary, the Gothic. Writers may include Behn, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Lennox, Sterne, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, and Shelley.