ENG 742 - Eighteenth-Century Literature

This course will examine the transatlantic circulation of ideas, discourses, and ideologies between the nations that over the course of the eighteenth century would become America and England. Focusing variously on topics like women’s captivity narratives, poetical nationalism and economics, religious enthusiasm, literary loneliness, and the “birth” of America, this course will range over the characters, events, and genres that would lead to two nations and a “long” eighteenth century.
Lecture
Credits: 3
Offered in Alternate Years