ENGL 0600M - Madness and Enlightenment: Literature 1660-1800

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Brown University

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The term "enlightenment" has been used to emphasize the power of reason in the development of intellectual freedom, democracy, capitalism, class mobility, and other aspects of 18th-century experience. However, the period's major writers were fascinated by unreason, by aberrant states of mind from love melancholy to outright madness. Readings include Swift's Tale of a Tub, Pope's Dunciad, Johnson's Rasselas, Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Boswell's Hypochondriack, and Godwin's Caleb Williams.

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1.00

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www.brown.edu

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(401) 863-1000

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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