Week 8: Introduction the second novelist and the novel
George Eliot has the distinction of being the first modern novelist in the literal sense of the word. She revealed a novel design which is also a continuous effect on the current novel writing pattern. The main reason for her fame is that she is the first modern English writer. The first season of the English novel begins with Fielding and ends with Tollope. The second period is of Henry James and Meredith.
IMPORTANTS ASPECTS OF THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
- Individual vs Society
- George Eliot as an artist of Fiction/Novelist
- Significance of River Floss
- Ending of the Novel
- Autobiographical Elements
- Art of Characterization
- Characters:
- Maggie
- Tom
- Stephen
- Philip
- George Eliot as a modern novelist
- Child psychology
- Feminist Strands
- Imagery in Novel
Course Material
- Week 1: Introduction to the Course contents and Objectives
- Week 2: Introduction to the Novelist and the First Novel, Tess of the D'urbervilles
- Week 3: Role of Fate and Chance in Tess
- Week 4: Hardy's Art of Characterization
- Week 5: Patriarchal Dominance and Sexual Harrassment in the novel
- Week 6: Hardy's Pessimism and Portryal of women
- Week 7: Nature and Tess
- Week 8: Introduction the second novelist and the novel
- Week 9 to 12: Major Aspects of The Mill on the Floss
- Week 13 to 17: 3rd Novel, A Passage to India and its Major features
- Chapters 10
- Department English
- Teacher
Mr. Faheem Arshad
