Universidade de São Paulo

Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas

Departamento de Letras Modernas

1º semestre de 2018
Leituras do Cânone I
Profa. Dra. Sandra Guardini T. Vasconcelos

Objectives: to give students a comprehensive view of the great tradition of the

English novel in its various trends. The course focuses on canonical novels of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, concentrating on their formal aspects and
socio-historical context.

1. The Canon: definition and impasses

2. The rise of the novel and the growth of the reading public. Background reading:
“Realism and the Novel Form”; “The Reading Public and the Rise of the Novel” (Ian
Watt)

3. “Generic Transformation and Social Change” (Michael McKeon)

4. Making the novel: Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

Easter week: 26 to 31 March

5. Making the novel: Pamela (Samuel Richardson)

6. Making the novel: Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)

7. Unmaking the novel: Sentimental Journey (Laurence Sterne)

8. Unmaking the novel: Sentimental Journey (Laurence Sterne)

9. Parodying the Gothic: Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)

10. Parodying the Gothic: Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)

11. Novel form in Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

12. Point of view in Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

13. Tensions and contradictions in Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë.

14. Novel form in Great Expectations, Charles Dickens.

15. Lost illusions in Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

16. The individual and bourgeois England in Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

17. Recuperação

Suggested Background Reading

1. The English Novel, Terry Eagleton

2. Chapters 1 and 2 of The Rise of the Novel, Ian Watt
3. “Generic Transformation…” by Michael McKeon (see folder)
4. Dez lições sobre o romance inglês do século XVIII, Sandra Vasconcelos
5. Formação do Romance Inglês: ensaios teóricos, Sandra Vasconcelos
6. Introduction to The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence, Raymond
Williams
7. Chapters from The Country and the City, Raymond Williams
8. Cambridge Companions

Assessment

1) First paper: Choose one eighteenth-century English novel and write a paper in which you
will argue a central hypothesis. You must give it a title that reflects and summarises this
central hypothesis.
Due date: 24 April

2) Second paper: Choose one nineteenth-century English novel and write a paper in which
you will argue a central hypothesis. You must give it a title that reflects and summarises this
central hypothesis.
Due date: 19 June

Format: cover page, containing name/ period (morning or evening); font: Times
New Roman 12; 1,5 line spacing; 5 pages (bibliography and notes excluded
from page limit)

Bibliographical References

Allen, Walter. The English Novel. London: Penguin, 1968.

Antonio Candido. Timidez do Romance. In: A educação pela noite e outros ensaios.
São Paulo: Ática, 1987, p. 82-99.
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction. A Political History of the Novel.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
-------. How Novels Think. The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900. New York:
 Columbia University Press, 2005.
Backscheider, Paula R. & Ingrassia, Catherine. A Companion to the Eighteenth-
Century English Novel and Culture. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009
Case, Alison & Shaw, Harry E. Reading the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Oxford:
Blackwell, 2008.
Caserio, Robert L. & Hawes, Clement. The Cambridge History of the English Novel.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Comparato, Fábio Konder. Ética. Direito, Moral e Religião no Mundo Moderno. São
Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2006.
Correa, Delia da Sousa (ed.). The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Realisms. London:
Routledge, 2000.
Briggs, Asa. The Age of Improvement. London; New York: Longmans, Green, 1959.
-------. A Social History of England. Penguin, 1985.
-------. Victorian Cities. Penguin, 1990.
David, Deirdre (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel. Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Davis, Lennard. Factual Fictions. The Origins of the English Novel. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1983.
Day, Geoffrey. From Fiction to the Novel. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.
Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel. An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
-------. The Nature of Gothic. Figures of Dissent. London: Verso, 2005, p. 17-23.
Eagleton, Mary & Pierce, David. Attitudes to Class in the English Novel from Walter
Scott to David Storey. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.
Flint, Kate (ed.). The Victorian Novelist. London: Croom Helm, 1997.
Ford, Boris (ed). The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. From Dryden to
Johnson. London: Penguin, 1991, vol. 4.
-------. Secular Scripture. A study of the structure of romance. Harvard University
Press, 1978.
Garside, Peter & O’Brien, Karen (ed.). The Oxford History of the Novel in English.
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Press, 2015.
Grimsley, Ronald (ed.). The Age of Enlightenment (1715-1789). London: Penguin,
1979.
Hobsbawm, Eric. A Era das Revoluções. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1977.
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Horsman, Alan. The Victorian Novel. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
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Kettle, Arnold. An Introduction to the English Novel. London: Hutchinson, 1972, vols.
1-2.
Konigsberg, Ira. Narrative Technique in the English Novel. Defoe to Austen. Hamden,
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Kucich, John & Taylor, Jenny Bourne (ed.). The Oxford History of the Novel in English.
Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880. Oxford: Oxford
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McKeon, Michael. The Origins of the English Novel (1600-1740). Baltimore: The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1991.
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Knowledge. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Montandon, Alain. Le Roman au XVIIIe Siècle en Europe. Paris : Presses
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Moretti, Franco. The Way of the World. The Bildungsroman in European Culture.
London: Verso, 1987.
Porter, Roy. English Society in the Eighteenth Century. London: Penguin, 1984.
Regan, Stephen. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: A Critical Reader. London:
Routledge/The Open University, 2001.
Richetti, John (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel.
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Richetti, John J. Popular Fiction before Richardson. Narrative Patterns, 1700-1739.
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Rogers, Pat. The Eighteenth Century. London: Methuen, 1983.
Seager, Nicholas. The Rise of the Novel. A reader’s essential guide to criticism.
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Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Novel Beginnings. Experiments in eighteenth-century English
fiction. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006.
Stevenson, Lionel. The English Novel. A Panorama. London: Constable, 1960.
Stevick, Philip (ed.). The Theory of the Novel. NY: The Free Press/Macmillan, 1967.
Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. London:
Weidenfeld L. Nicolson, 1977.
Vasconcelos, Sandra Guardini T. Dez lições sobre o romance inglês do século XVIII. São
Paulo: Boitempo, 2002.
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 2007.
Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies on Defoe, Richardson and Fielding. London:
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Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City. London: The Hogarth Press, 1993.
Williams, Raymond. The English Novel from Dickens to Lawrence. London: The
Hogarth Press, 1970.

Links:
http://www.usp.br/bibliografia/inicial.php?s=romance (Bibliografia sobre
romance)

https://vimeo.com/61369491 (Palestra de Michael McKeon)

https://blogdaboitempo.com.br/2016/06/06/confira-os-videos-integrais-do-1-
curso-livre-gyorgy-
lukacs/?utm_content=buffereb995&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&
utm_campaign=buffer (Aulas sobre Lukács)