This course will provide an introduction to theories of the novel, including narratology, Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism, and a range of feminist, queer, and critical race approaches. We will read three sample novels alongside critical work by Gerard Genette, Ann Banfield, Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bakhtin, Roland Barthes, Nancy Armstrong, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Henry Louis Gates, Paul Gilroy, Frederic Jameson, Raymond Williams, Colleen Lye, Stephen Greenblatt, Catherine Gallagher, Dorothy Hale, and Lisa Lowe. Our sample novels are likely to be Henry James, Daisy Miller; Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse; and Caryl Phillips, Crossing the River.

Texts:

• James, Henry. Daisy Miller. Penguin Classics, 1987. [0140432620]
• Woolf, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. Harvest Books, 1989. [0156907399]
• Winterson, Jeanette. Written on the Body. Vintage, 1994. [0679744479]
• Philips, Caryl. Crossing the River. Vintage, 1995. [0679757945]