ENGL 3300

Satire, Sensibility, and Sexuality in 18th Century Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

"To my mind, the two most fascinating subjects in the universe are sex and the eighteenth century."–Brigid Brophy. Close reading of texts in a variety of genres (poetry, fiction, drama, philosophy, autobiography, essay) will be guided by such topics as: the nature of satire, irony, and mock-forms; the politics of gender and sexuality; the authority and fallibility of human knowledge; the rhetoric of eighteenth-century verse forms; the aesthetics of the sublime and the beautiful; the Enlightenment as an intellectual movement. Works by such writers as Rochester, Behn, Dryden, Wycherley, Swift, Pope, Cleland, Johnson, Boswell, Sterne, Kant, and Cowper.

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)
Distribution Category (LA-AS)

Comments This course may be used as one of the three pre-1800 courses required of English majors.

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