Topics: The Eighteenth Century

4 credits

Selected topics in English literature and culture during the “long eighteenth century,” the period between 1660 and 1830. Topics might include satiric writing, the theatre world, radical/reformist discourse, and the emergence of the professional woman writer. Writers include Behn, Wycherley, Congreve, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Wollstonecraft. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.