Literature and opposition, 1660-1800
C Probyn
8 points
* 3 hours per week
* Second semester
* Clayton
Objectives Students successfully completing this subject should have developed an awareness of the way literary texts are constructed and communicated by a variety of competing and contradictory social and personal currents in a historical period, and a means of understanding and analysing them.
Synopsis The subject is designed to introduce students to some major English texts of the Augustan era, selected to illustrate the intellectual, political and gender conflicts of the period. Special attention will be given to the relationship of writing to the emerging print-media through a study of prose and verse pamphleteering and a group of `best-sellers'.
Assessment second year Two essays (2500 words each): 80%
* Test (1
hour): 20%
Assessment third year Two essays (2500 words each): 80%
* Test (1
hour): 20%
* Third-year students will be expected to show a fuller
awareness of the contemporary cultural background, especially as it affects the
writer-reader relationship.
Prescribed texts
Burke E Reflections on the revolution in France
Defoe D Robinson Crusoe Penguin
Fielding H Tom Jones Penguin
Goldsmith O The vicar of Wakefield
Love H (ed.) Restoration verse Penguin
Sterne L A sentimental journey through France and Italy Penguin
Swift Gulliver's travels Penguin
Wollstonecraft M A short residence in Sweden and Godwin W Memoirs of the Author of `The Rights of Woman' Penguin
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