ENGL 311 - English Literature of the Restoration and 18th Century

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University of Richmond

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Focus on representative British authors of the late 17th and 18th centuries. Prerequisite(s): English 297 or 298 with a grade of C or better. Unit(s): 1 Additional Information: In this course students study works by representative British writers of the late seventeenth century (the so-called Restoration period, 1660-1700) and the eighteenth century (often divided by literary historians into two segments, the Augustan Age from 1700-1745, and The Age of Johnson or the Age of Sensibility from 1745-1789). Though the term "neoclassicism," which points to the concern of many writers during this long period, including the major poets John Dryden and Alexander Pope and the great satirist Jonathan Swift, with the literary models established by ancient Greek and Roman writers, is often applied to the entire period (sometimes called "the long eighteenth century"), and though many important works from the time are comic plays and prose or verse satires (both comedy and satire were traditional or "classical" literary genres or modes), the period is notable for the invention of a number of major new kinds of literature, most notably the novel (the works, principally, of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Tobais Smollett, Frances Burney, and Laurence Sterne) and modern autobiography and biography (for example, the most literary of all English-language biographies, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson). Most of the writers in this period in British literary history, which is part of the broader, European-wide phenomenon known as the Enlightenment, try through their works to come to terms with rapidly changing cultural trends that we now associate with the term "modernity."

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.richmond.edu

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(804) 289-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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