Pensum
Behn, Aphra. “The History of the Nun.” In: Oroonoko and other Writings. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2009 (1689). pp.138-190.
Fielding, Henry. Tom Jones. Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008 (1749).
Von La Roche, Sophie. Geschichte des Fr?uleins von Sternheim. München: dtv, 2007 (1771). / The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim. Transl. Christa Bagus Britt. SUNY Series. Women Writers in Translation, 1991.
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de. Les Liaisons dangereuses. Paris: Flammarion, 2006 (1782). / Dangerous Liaisons. Transl. Helen Constantine. Penguin Classics, 2007.
Austen, Jane. Persuasion. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006 (1818).
Tone Selboe. Hva er en roman? Universitetsforlaget, 2015.
Additional theoretical texts will be supplied through Fronter:
Britt, Christa Baguss. “Critical Introduction and Textual History.” The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim. SUNY Series. Women Writers in Translation, 1991. 3-35.
Beebee, Thomas. The Ideology of Genre: A Comparative Study of Generic Instability. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. (excerpt)
Castle, Terry. “The Carnivalisation of Eighteenth-Century English Narrative.” PMLA 99.5 (1984): 903-916.
Gemmill, Katie. “Jane Austen as Editor: Letters and the Cancelled Chapters of Persuasion.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 24.1 (2011): 105-122.
Richards, Anna. “The Era of Sensibility and the Novel of Self-Fashioning.” In: Barbara Becker-Cantarino, ed. German Literature of the Eighteenth Century: Enlightenment and Sensibility. London: Camden House, 2005. 223-244.
Seager, Nicholas. “Feminism and the Rise of the Novel.” The Rise of the Novel: A Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 89-108.
Todorov, Tzvetan. ? The Origin of Genres. ? New Literary History 8.1 (1976): 159-170.
Tomashevsky, Boris. “Literary Genres”. In: Russian Poetics in Translation 5: Genre. 52-83. (excerpt)
Warhol, Robyn. Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and PopCulture Forms. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003. (excerpt)