Eighteenth Century English Lit

Catalog description

This course deals with the literature of the Restoration and eighteenth-century, a time of intellectual, cultural, and political revolutions. Among the writers who may be studied are Behn, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Haywood, Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Johnson, Sterne, Burney, Inchbald, and Wollstonecraft. Depending on the instructor, the course may focus on a particular genre or it may deal with a specialized topic, such as "The Rise of Gender in the Novel," "The Idea of Authorship in the 18th Century," or "The Satiric Mode."