EN 305 - Restoration and 18th-Century Literature

Institution:

Hilbert College

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Description:

This course studies English literature (poetry, prose, drama) from the Restoration (1660-1700) to the later eighteenth century, including such writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Addison, and Steele. Critical topics include the return to monarchy; the resurgence of the theater tradition; the Battle of the Books; the rise of journalism and the satiric temper; the literary patronage of London and Grub Street; the development of political parties (Tories, Whigs) in relation to class interests; the country-house and garden as rural retreat; the ascendancy of natural theology and its Deistic expression; the refinement of prose style and poetic meter/diction; the influence of classical and foreign literary genres and traditions; and the developing interest in Gothic entertainments and the aesthetic of the primitive and picturesque as incipient Romanticism.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.hilbert.edu

Phone Number:

(716) 649-7900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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