Welcome to the course website for ENGL 3450/6450: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British literature.
This course brings students in contact with a variety of works
from 1660 to 1789 (according to the catalog), but my approach to the period also presents works part of the "long eighteenth-century," or works through the 1830s. Throughout the semester, we will engage in the fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and visual narrative of this long and rich period of literary history. Featured primary readings will include Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and the anonymous novel The Woman of Colour (among others) along with the works of William Hogarth, Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, and Samuel Johnson. Critical readings will support each primary text in this discussion-based course. Note that the reading in this course will be heavy at times.
