Prerequisites: upper-division standing or lower-divi- sion English course (other than composition) or con- sent of instructor
Description: A study of the relation of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature to its social and intellectual contexts: the rise of the bour- geoisie, the growth of British imperialism, the Industrial Revolution, the triumph of Newtonian science, philosophical empiricism, classicism, primitivism, antiquarianism, etc.