Learn · The Powers of the Novel
Lecture 1 of 92020-10-28
Convincing Fiction: Daniel Defoe to Ishiguro and Knausgaard
Professor John Mullan · Gresham College
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All the lectures
- Convincing Fiction: Daniel Defoe to Ishiguro and Knausgaard
- Crime in Fiction: Defoe and Dickens to Spark, Highsmith and McEwan
- Fiction and the Supernatural: Gothic novels and the Brontës to Hilary Mantel and Sarah Waters
- Plotting Novels: from Austen and Dickens to Agatha Christie and John le Carré
- Coincidences in the Novel: Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot to Evelyn Waugh and David Nichols
- Villains in the Novel: from Dickens, Hardy and Wilkie Collins to Hilary Mantel
- Adultery in the Novel, from Flaubert to Sally Rooney
- Historical Fiction from Sir Walter Scott to Georgette Heyer and Hilary Mantel
- Endings in the Novel, from Austen and Dickens to Edward St Aubyn and Rachel Cusk