ENGL 4408 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

Survey of major British authors of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; authors may include Milton, Dryden, Pope, Richardson, Fielding, Swift, Johnson, Austen.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

2000-level ENGL course with a grade of "C" or better.

Typically Offered

Demorest Campus: every third year

Student Learning Outcomes

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following outcome-based learning skills:

1. Synthesize your understanding and appreciation of texts to recognize historical, critical, and literary significance.
2. Recognize the source of much contemporary thinking about life, religion, and education.
3. Place the “age of enlightenment” in the History of Ideas.
4. Learn to read eighteenth-century essays, novels, plays, and poetry with a fresh, appreciative eye; with perceptive and imaginative responses; and with attention to detail.
5. Review the vocabulary of poetic and rhetorical terms.
6. Speak and write about literature in an insightful, sophisticated, and critical manner.
7. Discuss literature as both literary art and performance text, as both instructive and enjoyable.