This course is intended to provide students with a deeper understanding of seventeenth & eighteenth century English literature and its reception in contemporary culture in order to facilitate the development of independent critical thinking.

Course Objectives: 

After completing this course, students will be able...

--  To develop a clear understanding of seventeenth century English literary period.

--  To broaden a student’s intercultural reading experience.

--  To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the basis for literary works.

-- To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the aesthetic principles that shape literary works.

--  To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical and social context.

 

 

Course Contents:
                                     Seventeenth Century Literature

• John Milton: Paradise Lost (Books IX & X)

• William Congreve: The Way of the World

                                       Eighteenth Century Literature

• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels    

• Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

• Edmund Burke: “Speech on East Indian Bill”