Early Modern to Eighteenth Century Literature

This course is no longer required for admission to English Honours. Early Modern to Eighteenth Century Literature studies selected poetry, prose and drama from the late 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The course involves the analysis of literary works and investigation of germane contexts (literary, social and political). Authors to be studied can include canonical figures such as Shakespeare, Milton, Rochester, Behn, Swift, Haywood, Lennox and Sterne, as well as less well-known writers and popular texts that often circulated anonymously or pseudonymously.