ENG 323 - The Age of Satire

Institution:

Lafayette College

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Wit, irony, satire, burlesque, and farce from Dryden to Byron, seen against their contexts in eighteenth-century social, political, and literary controversy. Readings such as Gulliver's Travels and "A Modest Proposal" by Swift, Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," Gay's Beggar's Opera, various burlesques and farces, Hogarth's satiric engravings, and portions of Byron's Do Prerequisite: English 205, and a course in Literary History or permission of the instructor. Woolley

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lafayette.edu/

Phone Number:

(610) 330-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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