For this course, we will examine 5 novels that span 100 years, tracking the portrayal of love and its discontents in order to better understand what narrative reveals about such fundamental questions as what is the relationship between love, duty, and natural right; and what does a portrait of dangerous love say about the culture from which it arises? Readings will include The London Jilt (Anonymous), Love in Excess (Eliza Haywood), Amelia (Henry Fielding), Adeline Mowbray (Amelia Opie), and Persuasion (Jane Austen).