Part 1. Discs 1 & 2

Part 2. Discs 3 & 4.

Part 1 : Lectures 1. Definitions and Distinctions 2. The "Englishness" of the English novel 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.

Part 2 : Lectures 13. After 1870-Review and Preview

lectures 14. Eliot and the Multiplot novel

lectures 15. Eliot and the Unfolding of Character

lectures 16. Hardy and the Natural World

lecture 17. James and the Art of fiction

lecture 18. Conrad and the "Scramble for Africa"

lecture 19. Ford and Forster-Transition to Modernism

lecture 20. Lawrence and the "Bright Book of Life"

lecture 21. Joyce-Dublin and Dubliners

lecture 22. Joyce-Realism and Anti-Realism

lecture 23. Woolf and the Poetic novel

lecture 24. The Impact of novel.