18th-Century English Literature
Y23.6278 / Credit
Looks at the complex activity that characterized English literary culture in the 18th century-an era of reaction and revolution, of rising cities and great country houses, of the cultivation of formal gardens, and the intellectual ferment of coffeehouses. This period saw the rise of the novel, the age of satire, the origins of romanticism, and the apogee of neoclassicism, with such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Pope, Swift, Dryden, Addison and Steele, Johnson and Boswell, Paine, Gray, Blake, Austen, and Wollstonecraft.
Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: Introduction to Literature or permission of the instructor/Y20.6241
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