ENGL 346 - 18th-Century British Literature

3 Credit(s)

A study of 18th-century literature from Great Britain, including some study of the late 17th century, the Restoration period. The course places particular emphasis on the works of Swift and Pope and examines various genres and modes of the period such as Restoration comedy, satire in prose and verse, the periodical essay, Enlightenment science and aesthetics, and literature of sensibility. Other authors studied may include Dryden, Behn, Defoe, Johnson, Wollstonecraft, and Godwin.
Satisfies a humanities general education requirement for non-majors.