EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE AND CULTURE

ENGL 438

Study of a topic in 18th-Century literature.

ENGL 242

Considers a period of unparalleled tumult: a time of vast world empires and startling new technologies, revolutions that radically redefined self and community, two cataclysmic world wars, the emergence of ideas of human rights, and the first truly global feelings of interconnectedness. How has literature captured and contributed to these dramatic upheavals? Some writers worldwide have struggled to invent new forms, new words, and new genres to do justice to a world in crisis, while others have reached back in time, seeking continuity with the past. Explore enduring traditions of poetry and drama and think about experiments in the new, globally popular genre of the novel. Develops skills of critical reading and writing that are essential to majors and non-majors alike.

SPANISH 451

Historical survey of the literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Major authors and representative works in all genres covering Neo-Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism. Important currents in intellectual history.

ENGL 336

Study of 18th-Century English novel.

ENGL 805

Selected works, with an emphasis on literary and cultural background.