An introduction to British literature written in
"the long 18th century." Covers the full range of
the period's genres - plays, poems, essays, prose
narratives - and includes many of the period's
major authors (George Etherege, John Bunyan, Aphra
Behn, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard
Steele, Jonathan Swift, Anne Finch, Alexander
Pope, Eliza Haywood, John Gay, Mary Wortley
Montagu, Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver
Goldsmith). Particular attention paid to the
relation between satiric and sentimental
depictions of human existence.
"the long 18th century." Covers the full range of
the period's genres - plays, poems, essays, prose
narratives - and includes many of the period's
major authors (George Etherege, John Bunyan, Aphra
Behn, William Congreve, Joseph Addison, Richard
Steele, Jonathan Swift, Anne Finch, Alexander
Pope, Eliza Haywood, John Gay, Mary Wortley
Montagu, Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver
Goldsmith). Particular attention paid to the
relation between satiric and sentimental
depictions of human existence.
- Teacher: William Pritchard