Payton, Jason
MWF 9:10 AM
Park Hall 144
This course will explore the development of the early novel and the role it played in articulating new ideas about the relationship between the individual and society. We will focus thematically on novels about criminals, deviants, and outcasts as we study how the novel shaped and responded to questions of identity, morality, and meaning. We will focus generically on shifting conventions within the novel tradition over time, and on the significance of these formal shifts in narrative technique for our understanding of how novels mediate our understanding of various historical moments and categories of human experience.
Developments in the history of the novel covered will include:
Major assignments will include 1 short paper (5 pp.) and 1 final project (critical or creative).
Interested students are encouraged to contact Dr. Payton at jmpayton@uga.edu with inquiries about the course.