Undergraduate Courses
Rhetoric
156: Rhetoric of the Political Novel
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ScheduledFall 2011 Instructor(s)
As the literary form of the novel emerged during the early to mid eighteenth century, it remained an open and somewhat experimental genre with important ties to circulating political and philosophical discourses. This course will take the genre of the novel in a broad and open sense and look at the ways in which literature, fictional discourse, and political thought comprised a blurred and interactive relationship across the eighteenth century. The readings will comprise a schematic survey of approaches to the rhetorical blending of fictional and political writings in the work of notable authors including Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry Fielding, Denis Diderot, Jonathan Swift, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Daniel Defoe.