ENGL 3300

Satire, Sensibility, and Sexuality in 18th Century Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2015-2016 Catalog.

"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.

Distribution Category (LA-AS)

When Offered Fall.

Breadth Requirement (HB)

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

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