class plan

• Jonathan Crimmins – Brief History of the Novel (structure) and

Frankenstein from Two Perspectives (situation).

• Mapping genres in Frankenstein

• Intro to the Wikipedia project

Time’s Arrow

Country City

agrarian

feudal

monarchy

patriarchy

industrial

capitalist

democracy

women’s rights

3 Registers

ROMANCE

REALISM

COMEDY

BETTER Aristocratic

SAME Middle Class

WORSE Commoners

Novelistic Centuries1700-1749

• Robinson Crusoe 1719• Love in Excess 1719• Moll Flanders 1722• Gulliver’s Travels 1726• Pamela 1740• Joseph Andrews 1742

Novelistic Centuries1750-1799

• Adv Peregrine Pickle 1751• Tristram Shandy 1759• Castle of Otranto 1764• Evelina 1778• Caleb Williams 1791• The Monk 1796

Novelistic Centuries1800-1850

• Castle Rackrent 1800• Pride and Prejudice 1813• Waverly 1814• Ivanhoe 1819• Vivian Grey 1827• Pelham 1828• Pickwick Papers 1836• Sybil 1845• Jane Eyre 1847• Vanity Fair 1847• David Copperfield 1848• Mary Barton 1848

Novelistic Centuries1850-1899

• Moby Dick 1851• Villette 1853• Hard Times 1854• The Warden 1855• Great Expectations 1861• Vril: The Coming Race 1870• Middlemarch 1871• Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891• War of the Worlds 1898

Frankenstein 1818/2006

1818

• Enlightenment: Thomas Hobbes

• Romanticism: J.J. Rousseau

The Leviathan (1648)

The primitive perfectibility

emotion

nature

desire

anarchy

reason

science

law

monarchy

Emile (1762)

The primitive decadence

emotion

nature

right

socialism

reason

science

property

capitalism

Enlightenment

The primitive perfectibility

emotion

nature

desire

aristocracy

Supernatural

GOTHIC

reason

science

law

liberal democracy

Romanticism

The primitive decadence

emotion

nature

right

socialism

reason

science

property

capitalism

Supernatural

SciFi

week 3: guiding questions

• What does it mean for genre to be “a universal dimension of textuality” (Frow 2)?

• What is the relationship between particular texts and genres?

discussion board

Please post your initial reactions (i.e., conversational response) to the readings and attach your reading notes. For this week, I’d like you all to structure your reading notes by responding to Frow’s questions about genre on p. 10-11 and taking War of the Worlds (Wells [1898] and/or Welles [1938]) as your example.

Note: Be sure to indicate which version of War of the Worlds you are discussing and sign your name on your posting.