The English Novel from 1832 (ENGL 467B / 567B)
Explore key works in ENGL 467B/567B, The English Novel from 1832. Study Middlemarch, Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, and E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel in this curated reading list for advanced English courses.
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Aspects of the Novel
by Edward Morgan Forster
A highly original and intelligent investigation of the novel from celebrated writer and "gentle genius" E. M. Forster E. M. Forster's renowned guide to writing sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster takes on the seven elements vital to a novel: story, people, plot, fantasy, prophecy, pattern, and rhythm. He not only defines and explains such terms as "round" versus "flat" characters (and why both are needed for an effective novel), but also provides examples of writing from such literary greats as Dickens and Austen. Forster's original commentary illuminates and entertains without lapsing into complicated, scholarly rhetoric, coming together in a key volume on writing that avoids chronology and what he calls "pseudoscholarship."
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
An English family's complex lives are followed and picked up again after a 10 year hiatus in order to explore the effects of time.