Literature in the Age of Enlightenment

3.00 credits · Undergraduate

Prereq: 6 credits from ENGL at the 2000 level; or permission of the Department This course examines British writing from the Age of Reason to the Age of Sensibility (1720-1780). The range of genres and authors to be studied includes satires by Pope and Johnson, novels by Haywood, Fielding, Sterne, and Burney, lyric odes by Carter, Collins, and Gray, and the first Gothic novel by Walpole. (Format: Lecture 3 Hours) (Exclusion: ENGL 3400)