class plan Jonathan Crimmins – Brief History of the Novel (structure) and Frankenstein from Two Perspectives (situation). Mapping genres in Frankenstein Intro to the Wikipedia project
Time’s Arrow Country City agrarian feudal monarchy patriarchy industrial capitalist democracy women’s rights
3 Registers ROMANCE REALISM COMEDY BETTER Aristocratic SAME Middle Class WORSE Commoners
Novelistic Centuries Robinson Crusoe 1719 Love in Excess 1719 Moll Flanders 1722 Gulliver’s Travels 1726 Pamela 1740 Joseph Andrews 1742
Novelistic Centuries A dv Peregrine Pickle 1751 Tristram Shandy 1759 Castle of Otranto 1764 Evelina 1778 Caleb Williams 1791 The Monk 1796
Novelistic Centuries Castle Rackrent 1800 Pride and Prejudice 1813 Waverly 1814 Ivanhoe 1819 Vivian Grey 1827 Pelham 1828 Pickwick Papers 1836 Sybil 1845 Jane Eyre 1847 Vanity Fair 1847 David Copperfield 1848 Mary Barton 1848
Novelistic Centuries Moby Dick 1851 Villette 1853 Hard Times 1854 The Warden 1855 Great Expectations 1861 Vril: The Coming Race 1870 Middlemarch 1871 Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891 War of the Worlds 1898
Frankenstein 1818/2006
1818 Enlightenment: Thomas Hobbes Romanticism: J.J. Rousseau
The Leviathan (1648) The primitiveperfectibility emotion nature desire anarchy reason science law monarchy
Emile (1762) The primitivedecadence emotion nature right socialism reason science property capitalism
Enlightenment The primitiveperfectibility emotion nature desire aristocracy Supernatural GOTHIC reason science law liberal democracy
Romanticism The primitivedecadence emotion nature right socialism reason science property capitalism Supernatural SciFi
week 3: guiding questions What does it mean for genre to be “a universal dimension of textuality” (Frow 2)? What is the relationship between particular texts and genres?
discussion board Please post your initial reactions (i.e., conversational response) to the readings and attach your reading notes. For this week, I’d like you all to structure your reading notes by responding to Frow’s questions about genre on p and taking War of the Worlds (Wells [1898] and/or Welles [1938]) as your example. Note: Be sure to indicate which version of War of the Worlds you are discussing and sign your name on your posting.