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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title	Literature of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Module Code	LIT3
School	Oscail
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Module Co-ordinator	Semester 1: James Brunton Semester 2: James Brunton Autumn: James Brunton
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	15
Pre-requisite	LIT1
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

This module is based on English literature from the mid seventeenth-century to c. 1800 written in a number of genres. It covers the Civil War, Restoration and Augustan periods. The last part of the module focuses on the early development of the novel.

Learning Outcomes

1. Analyse the importance of the effect of political events on literary works
2. Evaluate non-fictional prose literary works such as the travel narrative and the literary epistle
3. Explain the importance of satire in different literary genres from different periods
4. Investigate the continuities and discontinuities of a specific literary theme over the span of a century, using pastoral writing as an example
5. Analyse the importance of women as both subjects and writers of literary works
6. Evaluate the ‘rise of the novel’ and analyse its roots as one of the most important genres in English literature
7. Interrogate the different forms in which novels can be written

Workload	Full-time hours per semester
*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Tutorial	15	No Description
On-line learning	15	No Description
Independent learning	345	No Description
Total Workload: 375

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

Unit 1: Introduction: An Incendiary Age.
Unit 2: Loss and Renewal: Pastoral Poems by John Milton.

Unit 3: Civil War to Interregnum: Engagement in the Public Sphere and the 'Country House' Poem.
Unit 4: Seventeenth-Century Political Prose: John Milton's Areopagitica.

Unit 5: Loss and Renewal in John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Unit 6: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress: An Allegory of the Christian Life.

Unit 7: Restoration to Revolution (1): Debauch and Disability.
Unit 8: Restoration to Revolution (2) Restored Wit: The Poetry of John Dryden.

Unit 9: Restoration beyond Revolution: William Congreve's The Way of the World.
Unit 10: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock.

Unit 11: Creativity and Gender: Pope, Finch, Barber.
Unit 12: Travel Writing and the Letter in the Eighteenth Century: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Unit 13: Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722).
Unit 14: Jonathan Swift and Ireland.

Unit 15: 'Rise of the Novel' (1): Samuel Richardson's Pamela (1740).
Unit 16: Rise of the Novel (2): Henry Fielding and the 'Pamela Controversy'.

Unit 17: 'The Rise of the Novel'?.
Unit 18: Sentimental Fiction.

Unit 19: Journey Narratives.
Unit 20: The Country and the City: Goldsmith and Crabbe.

Unit 21: Gothic Fiction: Horace Walpole's Castle of Otranto and Beyond.
Unit 22: Review.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	50%	Examination Weight	50%

Course Work Breakdown
Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Assignment	Assessment takes a variety of forms, including essays, reports, learning journals, presentations and group assignments.	50%	n/a

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 3

Indicative Reading List

0: N.B: The majority of the poems from the required reading lists are available on Literature Online, although there are textual variants with the versions used here., 31995
0: Some readings are available online via Project Gutenberg., 31996
0: Please see Moodle for more readings/online resources., 31997
2008: The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse, Oxford University Press, 31998
2007: Dryden: Selected Poems, Longman Annotated Poets Harlow: Pearson, 31999
2003: The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse, Oxford University Press, 32000
2000: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, Blackwell Annotated Anthologies (Oxford: Blackwell), 32001
1996: Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems, Penguin, 32002
1994: Areopagitica in Complete English Poems, Of Education, Areopagitica, ed. by George Campbell, Everyman, 32003
1667: Paradise Lost, 32004
0: The book of Genesis from the Bible, chapters 1-3, King James’ Version., 32005
1994: The Complete Works, Penguin Classics, 32007
2008: Selected Poetry, Oxford World’s Classics, 32008
2008: Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry, Oxford World’s Classics, 32010
1990: 19. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 32011
2003: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), ed. by Cynthia Wall, Penguin Classics, 32012
2008: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, ed. by Keymer, T. and Wakely, A., Oxford World’s Classics, 32013
2008: Samuel Johnson: The Major Works, Oxford World’s Classics, 32014
2009: The Man of Feeling, Oxford World’s Classics, with notes and introduction by Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave., 32015
2009: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, ed. by Lewis M. Knapp and Paul-Gabriel Boucé, Oxford University Press, 32016
2009: The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse, Oxford University Press, 32018
2008: The Castle of Otranto, ed. by W. S. Lewis, with an introduction and revised notes by E. J. Clery, Oxford University Press,