This course is available to both Queen’s and non-Queen’s students. Non-Queen’s students (including interest students, visiting students, and new online degree students) must first apply for admission. The following is presented for informational purposes only and is subject to change.

Instructor

Christopher Fanning Learn more about the instructor...
Office: 536 Watson Hall
E-mail: christopher.fanning@queensu.ca
Phone: 613-533-2153

Course Description

This online English course is a study of poetry, drama, and prose of the period 1660-1800. Readings will be drawn from the works of writers such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Fielding, and Richardson.

Course Objectives

• to acquaint students with the main political, cultural, and social anxieties of the period.
• to provide students with a solid working knowledge of representative texts from the period.
• to help students develop the capacity for analytical thought and its written expression in the form of lucid and compelling essays.

Course Topics

• Introduction: The Age of Exuberance
• Lesson One: Two Poets, John Dryden and Alexander Pope
• Lesson Two: The Novel and Social Realism (Introduction to the Novel, Daniel Defoe, Roxana, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
• Lesson Three: Three Romances (Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, J.P. Hardy, Horace Walpole, William Beckford, Roger Lonsdale
• Lesson Four: The Anti-Novel/The Epistalary Novel (Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, Ian Campbell Ross, Tobias Smollett, Lewis Knapp
• Lesson Five: Two Comedies (Oliver Goldsmith - She Stoops to Conquer, Richard Brinsley Sheridan - The School for Scandal)
• Lesson Six: The Noel and the Woman Question (Frances Burney, Evelina, Vivien Jones, Mary Woolstonecraft, Gary Kelley)

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• Computer Requirements and Internet Access
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• Academic Integrity
• Evaluation
• Suggested Time Commitment
• Required Material