Restoration and Neoclassic Literature
2022-2023 Academic Catalog
   

ENG 5000 - Restoration and Neoclassic Literature


This course will focus on the literature of the Enlightenment and the rise of neoclassicism. Students will analyze and interpret literary texts written from 1660 to 1798, giving attention to spiritual, aesthetic, historical, intellectual, and political contexts. Genres may include the diary, drama, poetry, satire, the prose essay, biography, and the novel. Previously taught authors include Samuel Pepys, John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Mary Astell, William Wycherly, William Congreve, Jonathan Swift, Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, James Boswell, James Thomson, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith, George Crabbe, and William Cowper.

Credit Hours: 3

Term Offered: Spring of odd years