Eighteenth-centu ry literature and culture introduces many traditions that we describe as quintessentially of our own time. Students explore the eighteenth century as the beginning of "modernity." Topics may include globalization; feminism; middle class culture and the novel; the Gothic and sensibility; notions of sex, gender, ethnicity, and nationality; and philosophies of the individual.Weekly
Eighteenth-centu ry literature and culture introduces many traditions that we describe as quintessentially of our own time. Students explore the eighteenth century as the beginning of "modernity." Topics may include globalization; feminism; middle class culture and the novel; the Gothic and sensibility; notions of sex, gender, ethnicity, and nationality; and philosophies of the individual.Weekly
