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ENGL-559-01 Age of Johnson
Spring only
Beginning with a study of the major writings of Samuel Johnson and his circle of literary friends, this course traces the formation of the canon of late eighteenth-century British literature and the ways in which that canon has recently been revised. In addition to Johnson, attention will be given to the poetry, novels, biographies, letters, criticism, and moral, philosophical, and historical texts of writers such as James Boswell, Edmund Burke, Frances Burney, Edward Gibbon, Oliver Goldsmith, Hester Thrale-Piozzi, Horace Walpole, and Mary Wollstonecraft.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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