Topics in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture

Catalog description

On demand. Poetry, fiction, drama, and prose from 1700 to 1800, including writers such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Pope, Swift, Burney, Heywood, and Lennox. Emphasis on cultural developments (such as neoclassicism, capitalism, colonialism, the rise of the novel) and their effect on changing conceptions of class, family structure, gender, sexuality, and race in 18th-century Britain.