Explore Watt’s discussion of how “the novel embod[ies] the individual apprehension of reality” developed by philosophical realism and the emerging institutions of bourgeois society. Make your discussion involve all three “classic” novels read for class, i.e., Bennett, Woolf, and Carter, and then move on to the novel by Powers. Use at least three secondary references to develop your discussion of the novels. The same quotation may be quoted several times, but the same passage quoted twice will count as one reference.
In general Michale Mckeon’s Theory of the Novel is the course book. and The Rise of The Novel by Ian Watt