Overview
Description
Readings in drama, poetry, shorter prose fiction and intellectual prose of such writers as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Goldsmith, Gray, Hume, Walpole, Blake.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- write lucid, well-constructed arguments analyzing and interpreting texts.
- analyze a literary work in its cultural and historical contexts.
- develop strategies for reading and interpreting the poetry, drama, and fiction of the long eighteenth century.
- analyze key issues and ideas that shaped eighteenth-century culture.
- articulate an understanding of, and opinions about, various debates or theories relating to literature of the long eighteenth century.