ENGL 17804 - Genres of History in the Long Eighteenth Century

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University of Chicago

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This survey comes to terms with eighteenth-century Britons' capacious sense of what counts as "history" and bring that sense to bear on our own historical thinking. We proceed by way of the myriad genres of history in eighteenth-century literature, a list likely to inclu de Behn ? "true history" of imperial sla very, P ope's mock -epic, D efoe's historical novel, Ha ywood's scandalous "secret history ," Hume's sentimental hist oriogra phy, Gray 's elegie s, Walpo le's gothic, Chatterton's forged p oetry, Fran ces Sheridan's oriental tale, R ichard Brin sley Sheridan's famil y histori es, and Cowper's mock-conjecture. T. C

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3.00

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Lecture

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WWW.UCHICAGO.EDU

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(773) 702-1234

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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