This course aims to introduce students to the history, styles, themes and development of the English novel, from the eighteenth century to the present. It will encourage the students to discover the ways human experience can be articulated through narratological devices such as perspective, voice, structure, metaphor and symbol as well as through the engagement with themes such as the nation, identity, language, history, and society. Theoretical introductions will give students a critical vocabulary that will allow them to discuss the texts in depth; readings of texts will allow them to examine the ways a particular genre functions and demonstrate how literature may embody as it produces culture.