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    This course outline introduces students to 18th century English literature from the Neo-Classical period spanning 1660-1785. It covers works from the Restoration period including poems by John Milton and John Dryden, as well as a play by William Congreve. The course then focuses on the Augustan period, examining works by Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding, including essays, periodicals, poems, satires, and novels from these authors.

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    This course outline introduces students to 18th century English literature from the Neo-Classical period spanning 1660-1785. It covers works from the Restoration period including poems by John Milton and John Dryden, as well as a play by William Congreve. The course then focuses on the Augustan period, examining works by Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding, including essays, periodicals, poems, satires, and novels from these authors.

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    18th Century English Literature

    2022-2023

    COURSE OUTLINE

    Course Description: The course aims to familiarize students with prose, poetry and drama
    produced in the Neo-Classical Period (1660-1785).

    I. Historical Background: Neo-Classical Period

    II. The Restoration Period (1660-1700)

    • John Milton
    Paradise Lost, Book IX

    • John Dryden
    “From A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire”
    “Absalom and Achitophel” (1681-2)
    "MacFlecknoe" (1682)

    • William Congreve
    The Way of the World (1700)

    III. The Augustan Period (1700-1745)


    • Alexander Pope
    “An Essay on Criticism” (1711)

    • The Periodical Essay


    o Addison and Steele: The Tatler (1709-11) and The Spectator (1711-2)
    Sir Richard Steele [Dueling]
    Sir Richard Steele [The Spectator’s Club]
    Joseph Addison [The Aims of the Spectator]
    • Jonathan Swift
    Gulliver Travels, Book I & Book II (1726)
    The Modest Proposal (1729)
    • Henry Fielding: The Historical Register for the Year 1736 (1737)

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