ENGL 3330 – Restoration and Eighteenth­Century Literature Semester Term and Year: Professor: Spring 2010 Schmid Course Description: A survey of the major poets, essayists and prose writers in the British isles from 1660 to 1800. The course will explore the literary attributes of “neoclassicism,” the wide range of prose and verse satire in the period, and the historical conditions that gave rise to Romanticism and the novel. Authors include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Defoe, Goldsmith, Johnson, Thomson, and Walpole. Required Texts: Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 1C: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (3rd ed.) Castle of Otranto and The Man of Feeling: A Longman Cultural Edition (1st ed.) Course Objectives: Grading Breakdown: (exams, papers, etc.) Students should acquire a broad understanding of neoclassical aesthetics and eighteenth‐century prosody, the relationship between literature and the changing social and political scene in the period (including the role of gender, race and class in literature and society), and genres such as satire, the lyric, the essay, Restoration drama, and the novel.
Response Papers (4)
15% each Final Exam 20% Group Log 10% 10% Reading Quizzes Teaching Method: Lecture and class discussion; small‐group discussion and logs. Brief Description of Course Broad range of readings from the period, including numerous Content: poems, essays, and two novels. Some in‐class presentation of music, painting, and architecture of the period.