Lecture 1. Definitions and distinctions

Lecture 2. The "Englishness" of the English novel

Lecture 3. Historical context of early English fiction

Lecture 4. The rise of the novel

Richardson and Fielding

Lecture 5. After 1750

Sterne, Burney, and Radcliffe

Lecture 6. Scott and the historical novel

Lecture 7. Austen and the comedic tradition

Lecture 8. Austen and the history of consciousness

Lecture 9. Dickens

early works

Lecture 10. Novelists of the 1840s

Thackeray

Lecture 11. Novelists of the 1840s

the Brontës

Lecture 12. Dickens

later works.