EN 236 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature

This course focuses on the study of British literature from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, decades in which Enlightenment ideals spread across Europe, print culture expanded dramatically, and exploration and trade brought a new awareness of the larger world; analysis and criticism of representative works of poetry (Pope, Swift, Johnson, Gray); drama (Behn, Goldsmith, Sheridan); and prose (Addison and Steele, Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Austen).

Four credits.