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.
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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