Description: Prereq- uisite(s): upper-division standing or lower-division English course (other than composition) or consent of instructor. A study of the relation of Restoration and eighteenth-century literature to its social and intellec- tual contexts: the rise of the bourgeoisie, the growth of British imperialism, the Industrial Revolution, the triumph of Newtonian science, philosophical empiri- cism, classicism, primitivism, antiquarianism, etc.