ENG336L - Eighteenth-Century England and the Colonies

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
A study of the representative themes and figures of both England and the New World from the late Restoration through the turmoil of the Revolutionary period. Examination of the satiric mode through writers such as Swift, Gay, Pope, and Franklin; the meditative mode, through writers such as Edwards, Thomson, Wheatley, Gray, and Cowper; the critical/biographical mode, through writers such as Johnson, Boswell, Burke, Jefferson, Paine; the dramatic mode, through writers such as Sheridan, Goldsmith, Burney, and Tyler; and the narrative mode, through writers such as Fielding, Richardson, Rowson, and Equiano.