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This module will visit literature of the so-called “long” eighteenth-century (1660-1830) in the context of broad contemporary issues of imperial expansion and revolutionary change. Poetry in this period become politicized both in support of and in response to an ruling order that is under ever great pressure to legitimate itself in new ways and to an ever larger percentage of the population. Meanwhile, the novel emerges as a genre with literary pretensions and literary anxieties for the first time. Successful students of this course will be able to understand how “Literature” itself was institutionalized as a reflection of national and imperial self-definition.
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ENLIGHTENMENT & ROMANTICISM
