ENG-3038 Reason & Emotion: 18th Century Literatur

This course will serve as an introduction to the broad-ranging literature of the long eighteenth century, from the Restoration in 1660 to the Rise of Romanticism in the 1800's. During this period, the cultural and financial marketplaces exploded, giving rise to new literary forms, a discourse on aesthetics, and the modern concepts of identity. Major authors include John Milton, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austen.