Women in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England (1660-1813)
This course, on the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, satisfies the 1700-1900 requirement for English majors as well as a 300-level elective for English minors. This time period has a great deal of genre to offer: comedy, drama, horror, and romance. As a framework for an overview of this fascinating period, our course will look at a variety of plays, poems, prose, and novels that demonstrate the eighteenth-century anxieties over the shifting role of women in society. And by taking this course, you will acquire a general knowledge of long eighteenth-century literature. In addition to primary texts, we will also read critical articles that help us better understand the importance of women to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.
Assessment will likely include student presentations, reader response short writings, and exams. Attendance is required and participation will be a key element of student success in this course.
Required Texts:
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 978-0141439518
- Oroonoko, and Other Writings by Aphra Behn (Oxford World Classics) ISBN: 978-0199538768
- Evelina by Frances Burney (Oxford University Press) ISBN: 978-0199536931
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe (Penguin Classics) ISBN: 978-0140433135
- Fantomina by Eliza Haywood (Broadview) ISBN: 978-1551115245
- The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (Dover Thrift) ISBN: 978-0486434124
- A variety of primary and secondary pdfs online