Course 2—Lecture

The Novel: A mirror of the world
The novel, a long fictional prose narrative, is a latecomer to the literary scene—it's only some 300 years old. (Poetry and drama are much older.) In LitCourse 2 we discuss the birth of the novel and how it came to reflect a new way of seeing the world.

Reading
Arthur Conan Doyle—"A Case of Identity"