ENG 234 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature

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Wellesley College

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Noggle Eighteenth-century literature is a great source of British humor. This course will survey major writers, including Pope, Swift, Fielding, Sterne, and Johnson, all (in different ways) screamingly and often disturbingly funny. Their texts exemplify the contradictory qualities Brit-ish humor typically comprises-its wild exaggerations and dry wit, silly exuberance and cutting social criticism, eccentricity and cool de-tachment. We will also consider humor in a larger sense: the notion of character and personality these writers developed, and connections between it and evolving gender, economic, political, and cultural relations in the period. Beyond merely amusing, the personalities unfolded in this literature are introspective and unsettled, skeptical and devout, sociable and sensitive, ambitious and curious, and help give the eighteenth century its distinctive flavor. Prerequisite: None Distribution: Language and Literature Semester: Spring Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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