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The course begins with a study of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, and

moves through Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, and Great

Expectations, and ends with Virginia Woolf's The Waves.

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Matz's interesting questions about the purposes of novel writing

and the motives of writers make for a more interesting course than simply

reading and analyzing individual books.

Matz cites Webster's Dictionary's definition of a novel as "an invented prose narrative that is usually long and complex," saying that the novel is much more than a collection of words."

The course will study the way the novel has developed since the

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