Giants of the British novel. Part I: the rise of the novel, and the first British masters

Disc 1. lecture 1. Antecedents and precursors : what is a novel? ; lecture 2. Daniel Defoe and "Robinson Crusoe" --

disc 2. lecture 3. Samuel Richardson : "Clarissa" and "Pamela" ; lecture 4. Henry Fielding and "Tom Jones" --

disc 3. lecture 5. Tobias Smollett and others : the novel of sentiment and the Gothic novel ; lecture 6. Laurence Sterne and "Tristram Shandy" --

disc 4. lecture 7. Sir Walter Scott, "The heart of Midlothian," and the historical novel ; lecture 8. Jane Austen.