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Module Title	Literatures of the 17th and 18th Centuries
Module Code	LIT3
School	Oscail
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Module Co-ordinator	Mr James Brunton	Office Number	D102
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	15
Pre-requisite	LIT1
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

Students in this module will encounter Jacobean drama, the rise of the novel as well as forms of prose written between 1600 and 1800. Attention is given to lesser-known writings by women in this period.

Learning Outcomes

1. Explain the influence that the Copernican Revolution had upon seventeenth-century society
2. Discuss the portrayal of seventeenth-century society in the drama of WilliamShakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Webster and William Congreve.
3. Apply the conventions of Metaphysical poetry to the work of John Donne,George Herbert and Andrew Marvel.
4. Evaluate John Milton's arguments against censorship in his essay Areopagitica.
5. Assess the function of Epic poetry in the work of John Milton, John Drydenand Alexander Pope.
6. Describe Jonathan Swift's concerns with Irish poverty in his politicalpamphlets.
7. Compare and contrast depictions of rural and urban society in pastoral and anti-pastoralpoetry.
8. Trace the development of the novel through the contributions of seventeenthand eighteen-century prose writers.

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
Unavailable

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., 12908
0: Some readings are available online via Project Gutenberg., 12909
0: Please see Moodle for more readings/online resources., 12910
2008: The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth-Century Verse, Oxford University Press, 12911
2007: Dryden: Selected Poems, Longman Annotated Poets Harlow: Pearson, 12912
2003: The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse, Oxford University Press, 12913
2000: Seventeenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology, Blackwell Annotated Anthologies (Oxford: Blackwell), 12914
1996: Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems, Penguin, 12915
1994: Areopagitica in Complete English Poems, Of Education, Areopagitica, ed. by George Campbell, Everyman, 12916
1667: Paradise Lost, 12917
0: The book of Genesis from the Bible, chapters 1-3, King James’ Version., 12918
1994: The Complete Works, Penguin Classics, 12919
1970: John Dryden: Selected Criticism, Clarendon Press, 12920
2008: Selected Poetry, Oxford World’s Classics, 12921
2008: Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry, Oxford World’s Classics, 12922
1994: 18. Eighteenth-Century English Poetry: The Annotated Anthology, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 12923
1990: 19. Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Anthology, Oxford University Press, 12924
2003: A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), ed. by Cynthia Wall, Penguin Classics, 12925
2008: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, ed. by Keymer, T. and Wakely, A., Oxford World’s Classics, 12926
2008: Samuel Johnson: The Major Works, Oxford World’s Classics, 12927
2009: The Man of Feeling, Oxford World’s Classics, with notes and introduction by Stephen Bending and Stephen Bygrave., 12928
2009: The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, ed. by Lewis M. Knapp and Paul-Gabriel Boucé, Oxford University Press, 12929
2009: The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse, Oxford University Press, 12930
2008: The Castle of Otranto, ed. by W. S. Lewis, with an introduction and revised notes by E. J. Clery, Oxford University Press,

Other Resources

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Programme or List of Programmes

Diploma/BA in Humanities

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Diploma/BA in English & History

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