Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 18TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: ENLIGHTENMENT INSTITUTIONS ***** This seminar will examine how the literature and culture of the English Enlightenment provided a foundation for both modernity and postmodernity. We will attempt to situate the literary and cultural politics of the Enlightenment--from a rejection of tradition to a disavowel of the modern--in a number of its important "institutions": liberalism, conservatism, feminism, party politics, sex/gender, class, capitalist ideology, colonialism, "authorship," and the aesthetic. Authors will include Rochester, Dryden, Behn, Astell, Manley, Pope, Gay, Swift, Locke, Hume, Addison, Mandeville, Burke, Johnson, Smith, and others. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Ellenzweig, Sarah