Ρεαλισμός και Αγγλικό Μυθιστόρημα του 19ου αι

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou holds degrees in English Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA Honours, PhD) and Leeds University (MA in Theatre Studies). She is Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture in the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and publishing on Realism, Modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory.

Course content development associate: Christina Papacharitou

1. Introduction
   Weeks 1 & 2 → Introduction to Realism
2. Jane Austen
   Weeks 3 - 5 → Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813
3. Charles Dickens
   Weeks 6 - 9 → Charles Dickens, Hard Times, 1854
4. George Elliot
   Week 10 → The Theory of Evolution by Charles Darwin Weeks 11 - 13 → George Elliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

• Familiarization of students with the term ‘realism’ in art and the narrative conventions of realism in literature.
• Ability of students to perceive realism in relation to the literary modes that preceded it and those that followed it.
• Familiarization of students with the political, social, and cultural context of the novels discussed, and ability to judge how it is reflected in them.

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1. An essay-type exam at the end (two essays), or
2. (if numbers permit) 1) oral presentation on a selected topic, 2) a small written assignment, and 3) an essay-type exam at the end (one essay). The essay is assessed on the basis of organization, argumentation, quality of expression in English, and skills of analysis and synthesis. The final examination is assessed on the basis of factual knowledge and familiarity with the required readings, in addition to the above criteria. The criteria are made known to the students in the introductory courses of the first year and apply in all literature courses. Τhese are also announced on Backboard and stated in the Course Outline.

• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
• Charles Dickens, Hard Times
• George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

1. Auerbach. Erich. Mimesis. Trans. Willard Trask. 1946. Princeton UP, 1953.
2. Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1982.
3. Barthes, Roland. The Pleasure of the Text. Trans. Richard Miller; with a note on the text by Richard Howard. New York: Hill and Wang, 1975.
4. Becker, George J, ed. Modern Literary Realism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1963, rpt. 1973.
5. Beer, Gillian. George Eliot: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. London: Routledge, 1983.
6. Brooks, Peter. Realist Vision. New Haven: Yale UP, 2005.
7. Boyd, Kelly & Rohan Mcwilliam. The Victorian Studies Reader. New York: Routledge, 2007.
8. Butler, Marilyn. Jane Austen and the War of Ideas. 1975. Clarendon P, 1987.
9. Copeland, Edward and Juliet McMaster. The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. Cambridge U P, 1998.
10. Cullers, Jonathan. Structuralist Poetics. 1975. London: Routledge, 1994. (Chapters 7 & 9)
11. da Sousa Correa, Delia. The Ninenteenth-Century Novel: Realisms. New York: Routledge, 2000.
12. Eagleton, Terry. The English Novel: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
13. Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1989.
14. Gilmour, Robin. The Victorian Period: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1830-1890. London & New York: Longman, 1993.
15. Grant, Damian. Realism. London: Methuen, 1970, rpt.1985.
16. Handler, Richard and Daniel Segal. Jane Austen and the Fiction of Culture: An Essay on the Narration of Social Realities. Boston: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.
17. Homans, Margaret. Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing. U of Chicago P, 1986.
18. Jacobus, Mary. “Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss”. In Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism. London: Methuen, 1987. 62-79.
19. Johnson, Claudia L. Jane Austen: Women, Politics, and the Novel. University of Chicago Press, 1990.
20. Jordan, John O, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens. Cambridge U P, 2001.
21. Kettle, Arnold. An Introduction to the English Novel. Vol. 1. 1951.
22. Hutchinson, 1977. Leavis, F.R. The Great Tradition. London: Chatto & Windus, 1973.
23. Levine, George, ed. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot. Cambridge U P, 2001.
24. Matthew, Colin, ed. The Nineteenth Century, The British Isles: 1815-1901. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000.
25. Miller, Jonathan and Borin Van Loon. Introducing Darwin and Evolution. Moers, Ellen. Literary Women. New York: Anchor Books, 1977.
26. Morris, Pam. Realism. The New Critical Idiom Series. Ed. John Drakakis. London: Routledge, 2003.
27. Politi, Jina. The Novel and its Presuppositions. Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1976. (Chapters 1, 2, 8)
28. Poovey, Mary. The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. U of Chicago P, 1984.
29. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of their Own: British Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Princeton UP, 1977.
30. Shires, Linda M, ed. Rewriting the Victorians: Theory, History, and the Politics of Gender. NY: Routledge, 1992.
31. Shuttleworth, Sally. George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning. Cambridge UP, 1984.