Course details

Name: ENGL - 247

Title: AUGUSTAN AGE

Section: 01

Semester: Spring - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This course explores the witty, satirical, inventive, elegant, and sometimes bawdy literature of the Restoration and the early 18th century (1660-1745). We will read poetry and drama, as well as examples of the period’s increasingly popular prose forms: the periodical essay, the short prose narrative, and the early novel. We will examine how writers use techniques like humor and satire as they grapple with and critique aspects of contemporary politics, the growing consumer culture, and changing notions of gender and class.

Authors include canonical and non-canonical figures such as John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Anne Finch, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Mary Leapor, Eliza Haywood, and Stephen Duck. Course requirements include a midterm, final, two short papers, and some informal writing.

Last updated on 2011-10-28 By Keohane Catherine (keohanec)

Schedule: Monday,Thursday From 4:00 pm To 5:15 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Genre Study (Poetry)
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• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Class Issues (3d)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Keohane Catherine (keohanec)

Is course canceled: No