Gender, Modernity, and the Novel will examine selected origins and developments of the modern novel as an expansively global narrative genre. From the putative origins of the novel in England and Europe – origins inextricably linked to empire and nation – we’ll turn to strategic, selected developments in the novel as a global form in an attempt to think critically about the novel, gender, modernity – and ‘global relations’ – in the early 21st century.

Readings will include work by the following authors:
Nancy Armstrong
Mikhail Bakhtin
Josephine Donovan
Rita Felski
Susan Friedman
Paul Gilroy
Terry Lovell
Georg Lukács
Michael McKeon
Denis Diderot
Ralph Ellison
Yahya Haqqi
Fumiko Hayashi
Abdel-Rahman Munif
Alexandros Papdiamandis
Natsumi Soseki
Laurence Sterne
Alki Zei