ENGL 429

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18th Century Fiction

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Focused study of British and Anglophone fiction in the eighteenth century. Authors may include Defoe, Swift, Haywood, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, Burney, Walpole, Radcliffe, and others.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 429 class schedule data for fall 2017
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40392	Lecture-Discussion	1G	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This course will examine the link between European colonialism and the development of recognizably modern fiction during the course of the long eighteenth century—a period commonly referred to as the Enlightenment—in England, France, and the Americas. We will analyze travel both as a literal means of disseminating “enlightenment” between cultures, and as a metaphor for describing the formation of the “enlightened” person, an idealized subject defined by her/his movement into trans-cultural spaces where complicated ethical and political dilemmas must be negotiated. Indeed, one of the influential legacies of these Enlightenment fictions (or fictions of Enlightenment) has been their formulation of cosmopolitanism as a solution to the often violent clash between cultures. The popular narratives we’ll study test the Enlightenment’s cosmopolitan ethos by imagining European observers in a wide range of locales: Brazil, West Africa, the Caribbean, Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Abyssinia, and Egypt, to name a few. Time permitting, we will finish by reading some recent philosophical work on the question “What is Enlightenment?” and we will attempt to answer that question ourselves. Texts by Montaigne, Behn, Defoe, Montesquieu, Swift, Montagu, Johnson, Voltaire, and Equiano. Requirements: active participation, journal responses, three essay projects, and a final exam. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	30171	Lecture-Discussion	1U	1:00PM -1:50PM	MWF	English Building	Pollock, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/28/17-12/13/17 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course will examine the link between European colonialism and the development of recognizably modern fiction during the course of the long eighteenth century—a period commonly referred to as the Enlightenment—in England, France, and the Americas. We will analyze travel both as a literal means of disseminating “enlightenment” between cultures, and as a metaphor for describing the formation of the “enlightened” person, an idealized subject defined by her/his movement into trans-cultural spaces where complicated ethical and political dilemmas must be negotiated. Indeed, one of the influential legacies of these Enlightenment fictions (or fictions of Enlightenment) has been their formulation of cosmopolitanism as a solution to the often violent clash between cultures. The popular narratives we’ll study test the Enlightenment’s cosmopolitan ethos by imagining European observers in a wide range of locales: Brazil, West Africa, the Caribbean, Persia, the Ottoman Empire, Abyssinia, and Egypt, to name a few. Time permitting, we will finish by reading some recent philosophical work on the question “What is Enlightenment?” and we will attempt to answer that question ourselves. Texts by Montaigne, Behn, Defoe, Montesquieu, Swift, Montagu, Johnson, Voltaire, and Equiano. Requirements: active participation, journal responses, three essay projects, and a final exam. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.