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Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature I

Topics in Restoration and 18th-Century Literature I (Winter 2026)

ENGL 431
Undergraduate
Winter 2026
3 Units
In-person
6
  • ENGL 200
  • ENGL 290

N/A

one-way Exclusions
  • Tristram Shandy, Norton Critical Edition (ed., Judith Hawley, 2019)
  • A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings ed., Ian Jack and Tim Parnell (Oxford)

ENGL 431: Laurence Sterne

This course will engage with all of Sterne’s works: Tristram Shandy, A Sentimental Journey, The Sermons and minor writings.  Among issues to be considered are: Sterne as precursor to the postmodern, as radical or conservative satirist, sentimentalist, Anglican minister, literary celebrity, etc.  Approaches from all angles are welcome: theoretical, rhetorical, historical, political, obstetrical, etc. (most of ’em ending, as these do, in ical).

Assessments

Grading Components

  • Participation: regular contributions to class
  • Group seminar presentation
  • A reading journal
  • A critical essay

**Subject to change**

This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

About Repeatable Courses
With repeatable courses, the course number (e.g., ENGL 466) is repeatable, but the topic is not. You can take as many topics as you like under the same course number, but you can only take each individual topic once. 

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