Read excerpts from the following books (pdf files are distributed via ITC-LMS).
Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Realism (Verso, 2013).
Thomas G. Pavel, The Lives of the Novel: A History (Princeton UP, 2013: originally published in France in 2003).
Joseph Drury, Novel Machines: Technology & Narrative Form in Enlightenment Britain (Oxford UP, 2017).
Guido Mazzoni, Theory of the Novel (Harvard UP, 2017: originally published in Italy in 2011).