Unit information: Literature 3 - 1700 to 1830 in 2008/09

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Unit name Literature 3 - 1700 to 1830
Unit code ENGL39004
Credit points 20
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12)
Unit director Dr. James
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of English
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

Some major authors of the 18th and early 19th centuries are studied: poets - e.g. Swift, Pope, Johnson, Gray, Blake, Crabbe, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats; novelists and prose writers: e.g. Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Richardson, Johnson, Burney, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Austen, Mary Shelley; and dramatists - e.g. Sheridan