Eighteenth-Century Literature (ENGL2020)
Course level
Undergraduate
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Class hours
2 Seminar hours
Prerequisite
#4 from Arts schedule.
Recommended prerequisite
The gateway course ENGL1800 (Literary Classics: Texts and Traditions) is highly recommended, along with either ENGL1500 (Contemporary Literature: Reading and Writing) or ENGL1100 (Introduction to Australian Literature).
Restricted
Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.
Assessment methods
Assignments, in-class quiz, tutorial attendance & participation.
Course enquiries
Study Abroad
This course is pre-approved for Study Abroad and Exchange students.
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Course description
Course Description The eighteenth century is often regarded as the moment at which modern literary culture begins. The novel, travel fiction, the newspaper essay, the ballad opera, the slave narrative, the mock epic, the revolutionary novel and the Gothic romance are among the new modes of writing to surface in the period. This course studies their emergence, as well as the revival of traditional forms, in the context of Britain's increasing global power and prestige. Authors include Pope, Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Godwin, Hays and other key writers of the period. NOTE: Course offering may be cancelled unless a minimum of 20 students enrol.
