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ENGL W4301 Eighteenth-Century English Literature. 3 points.
Not offered during 2022-23 academic year.
(Lecture). This course will be a survey of the major writers, in prose and poetry, in various literary genres of the British 18th century. Poets will include John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Samuel Johnson, and James Thomson. Writers of prose, both fiction and non-fiction, will include Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, and Edmund Burke. Three short papers and a take-home final exam will be required.