The British eighteenth-century novel was at heart experimental, riffing on but also departing from established literary and popular forms. This reading- and writing-intensive survey includes such authors as Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Lawrence Sterne, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen, inviting us to explore the early British novel in all its multifarious inventiveness. Prerequisite: One course in English with attribute GFWI.