Rise of the novel Exploring history's greatest early works
DVD - 2020
Take a journey from the birth of the novel to the height of the form in the mid-nineteenth century, and better understand what this literary form can tell about human nature and the unquenchable thirst for great stories. With Professor Emeritus Leo Damrosch of Harvard University as the guide, dive into some of the most notable works that helped create and shape the novel over the course of more than three centuries.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Literary criticism
Lectures
Instructional films
Educational films
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Great Courses
[2020]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Literature & Language ; Subtopic: Genre"--Cover.
"Course number 2417"--Disc labels.
24 lectures lasting 30 minutes each.
Course guidebooks laid in each container. Guidebooks contain outlines for each 30 minute lecture. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD.
- ISBN
- 9781629978833
- disc 1. Rediscovering the novel ; Roman novels: Satyricon and The golden ass ; Don Quixote and the picaresque novel ; Don Quixote: a deeper look ; La princesse de Clèves and the French novel ; The realistic novel: Robinson Crusoe
- disc 2. The satiric novel: Gulliver's travels ; Manon Lescaut: a tale of passion ; Joseph Andrews: an epic parody ; The psychological novel: Clarissa ; The great comic novel: Tom Jones ; Plot and structure in Tom Jones
- disc 3. Philosophical satire in France: Candide ; Comic travel letters: Humphry Clinker ; English metafiction: Tristram Shandy ; French metafiction: Jacques the fatalist and his master ; The French romantic novel: Julie ; The amoral novel: Les liaisons dangereuses
- disc 4. Pride and prejudice: the best English novel? ; Emma: better than the best English novel? ; The German romantic novel: The sorrows of young Werther ; The horror novel: Frankenstein ; A French masterpiece: The red and the black ; An English masterpiece: Middlemarch.