Literature and opposition, 1660-1800
H Love
8 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton
A study of English literature of the Augustan era, concentrating on texts which illustrate the intellectual, political and gender conflicts of the period.
Assessment
Two essays (2500 words): 80% * Test (1 hour): 20%
Prescribed texts
Behn The Lucky Chance English Dept, Monash U
Dryden Poems ed. Grant, Penguin
Gay The Beggars' Opera Penguin
Johnson Rasselas Penguin
Lee Lucius Junius Brutus English Dept, Monash U
Lennox The female Quixote OUP
Pope Collected poems ed. Probyn, Everyman
Smollett Humphry Clinker Everyman
Swift Gulliver's travels Norton