Eighteenth-Century Literature credit: 3 or

4 Hours

Advanced study of British literature between 1660 (the restoration of Charlies II to the throne) and 1800. The course focuses on poems, plays, novels, and nonfiction works from the period, paying particular attention to issues of gender relations, colonialism, imperial expansion, the slave trade, and class tensions. Writers covered may include Aphra Behn, Mary Astell, Joseph Addison, Bernard Mandeville, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Eliza Heywood, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Charlotte Lennox, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Olaudah Equiano, Charlotte Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and others. 3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.