The course develops an appreciation for distinctively eighteenth-century forms that include the “heroic couplet,” “mock-heroic,” and satire. The course also considers the novel and its “rise,” the development of theories of the sublime and the picturesque, and the discipline of aesthetics. The course includes coverage of Pope, Fielding, Swift, Johnson, and Gray, as well as a significant focus on the rise of a “woman’s tradition” exemplified in the work of Finch, Montagu, and their successors. [AREA 3]
ENG 330: Eighteenth Century Literature
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