Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (Broadview).Frances Brooke, The History of Emily Montague(New Canadian Library).John Cleland, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford).Attention will be paid to gender issues, as well as to genre, style, and thematic concerns.Įvaluation: 15% participation in discussion sections 25% mid-term test 10% final test 50% term paper. We shall conclude with Matthew Lewis’s The Monk (1796), the most sensational of the many Gothic novels of the 1790s, paired with Jane Austen’s witty parody of the Gothic, Northanger Abbey (1817). We shall then turn to two epistolary fictions: Frances Brooke’s The History of Emily Montague (1769), set in Quebec City, and Frances Burney’s first novel, Evelina (1778).
We shall begin with two first-person narratives: John Cleland’s erotic, or pornographic, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749), compared with Sarah Fielding’s distinctly non-erotic novel, The History of Ophelia (1760). It will focus on six novels, grouped in three pairs. Selected short texts from Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO)Įvaluation: 15% attendance and participation 25% mid-term test 10% final test 50% term paper.Įvaluation is subject to change based on class sizeĮxpected Student Preparation: Previous university-level course work in literature or cultural studies.ĭescription: This course will study developments in the English novel from the late 1740s until the turn of the century.Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders (Broadview).The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: Volume 3: The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century (Broadview, 2nd edition (2012)).In addition, we will consider biographical, socio-historical, and philosophical contexts included in the Broadview anthology. William Wycherley’s witty and bawdy The Country Wife (1675) epitomizes the popular Restoration dramatic form, while Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688), arguably the first novel in the English language, along with Daniel Defoe’s picaresque Moll Flanders (1722), will help us trace the rise of the novel. The class will also touch on other literary genres such as prose and drama. We will conclude at the mid-century with meditative works by James Thomson and Thomas Gray.
We will move next to Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, early eighteenth-century satirists whose distinctive form and language display the wide range of Augustan poetry.
Poetry will be the main focus of the class, as we begin with major works by John Dryden, Aphra Behn, and John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, which reflect tenuous post-Revolution political boundaries and transgress the limits of politeness during the Restoration. Prerequisite: None, though ENGL 311 is recommended.ĭescription: This course will survey developments in English literature from the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 to the middle of the eighteenth century.
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