ENG 217 English Literature, 1660-1800
This course examines works by some of the best-known poets, essayists, and
novelists from the Restoration and Eighteenth Century in Great Britain,
including Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding, and Johnson. The responses of
different authors to ongoing cultural conflicts will help structure our
survey. Rhetorical techniques and the development of genres will be
ongoing concerns. There will be special emphasis on the comedies of the
time by Wycherly, Etherege, Behn, Congreve, Gay, Steele, and Sheridan, not
only as texts for performance and reading, but also as objects the
authors' contemporaries reviewed with vigor and used to construct theories
about comedy and satire. This course is offered in the spring semester.
Credits: 1
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