LIT 360-01: British Augustans and Their Rivals, 1700-1820
Professor: David Venturo
Course Meetings: Tuesday/Friday 2:00-3:20pm
Explores tensions between rival groups of eighteenth-century British writers-most notably the Augustan satirists and their Whiggish adversaries-as they address important cultural, political, philosophical, and religious issues of the times. Special attention is given to defining the distinguishing characteristics of “Augustanism” and how this aesthetic became the norm against which all other literatures of the British eighteenth century have been defined.