This tutorial with second year students in English at Mansfield College, Oxford University, explores early attempts to define and categorise the 'new' genre of the novel. Discussion centres on Daniel Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe' and 'Moll Flanders' alongside a less well known novel of the same period, Eliza Haywood's 'Love in Excess'.

A tutorial given by Lucinda Rumsey, Mansfield College, Oxford University, to some first year degree students about Old English Riddles. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/