ENGH 331: Age of Sensibility: 1745-1800

ENGH 331-001: Age of Sensibility: 1745-1800
(Spring 2013)

01:30 PM to 02:45 PM MW

Thompson Hall 2022

Section Information for Spring 2013

English 331 is devoted to studying the literary production of Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century. This period includes both the American and the French Revolutions, the beginnings of the economic and social changes we understand as the Industrial Revolution, and the first arguments for abolishing race slavery in the British Empire. We will trace how reactions to these radical transformations were shaped by the period’s contending notions of “reason" and of “sensibility,” meaning acute feeling. We will closely study novels, essays, and poems that engage with the changing horizons of possibility characterizing this age of political and cultural upheaval. Authors include Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, Olaudah Equiano, Horace Walpole, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane Austen.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

English literature of later 18th century, time of American and French Revolutions, including new developments in novel, drama, biography, and poetry. Includes Johnson, Boswell, Blake, Goldsmith, Sterne, Gray, Cowper, Burney, Godwin, and Wollstonecraft. Offered by English. Limited to three attempts.
Recommended Prerequisite: Satisfaction of University requirements in 100-level English and in Mason Core literature.
Schedule Type: Lecture
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This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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