Lecturer in Charge: Mr David Williams [Room 54 – New Arts Block]

This course will analyze four or five novels which use the city, the definitive modern landscape, as a setting and as an objective correlative. The texts will be chosen to demonstrate both a range of responses to urban life and a sense of how changes in man's relationship with his cities have been measured and recorded in fiction.

Prerequisite: At least one level II prose fiction course

Instruction: 2 lectures, 1 tutorial per week

Evaluation: One term-paper (about 3,000 words) - 30%
Journal and tutorial presentations - 10%
Final 2-hour examination (2 answers) - 60%

Prescribed Texts:

Dickens, Charles. Hard Times (Penguin pb)
Dreiser, Theodore. Sister Carrie (Bantam pb)
Petry, Ann. The Street (Houghton Mifflin pb)
Selvon, Samuel. The Lonely Londoners (Longman pb)
West, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust (Signet pb)