Chapter 1

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels (Books 3 & 4)

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Satire and the Enlightenment

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Critique of Science, Reason, and Human Nature

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Misanthropy vs Moral intent

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Narrative technique and unreliability

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Chapter 2

The Rise of the Novel: Defoe

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

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Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Individual

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Spiritual autobiography and realism

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The myth of the self-made man

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Formal realism and the novel form

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Chapter 3

Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding

Fielding: Joseph Andrews or Tom Jones

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The Comic Epic Poem in Prose

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Pamela and the Epistolary Tradition

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Morality, Virtue, and Social Class

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Print culture and the expanding reading public

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Chapter 4

Laurence Sterne

Tristram Shandy (Selections)

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Anti-novel and narrative experimentation

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Digression, Time, and Hobby-horses

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John Locke's influence on Association of Ideas

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Self-reflexivity and typographic innovations

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Chapter 5

18th Century Poetry

Samuel Johnson: 'London' or 'The Vanity of Human Wishes'

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Thomas Gray: 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'

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The Graveyard School and Pre-Romanticism

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Transition from Neoclassicism to Romantic subjectivity

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Melancholy and the rural landscape

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