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| | ENG L327 1764 Later Eighteenth-Century Literature (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | But it is also, and perhaps by necessity, an age which spawns a whole host of irrational responses to the dominant tone of Reason, from the emergence of the gothic novel to the literature of sensibility, featuring characters unreasonably overpowered by emotion. |
 | | In this course, we will look at the literature of the period in terms of this struggle between reason and unreason, spending a good deal of time on the leading spirit of the age, Samuel Johnson, but also on some of the "unreasonable" styles of writing which pop up around him. |
 | | We will also read selections of the excessive poetry of the time, documents of literary criticism, and some texts that aren't usually read in the literature classroom, such as sections of Adam Smith's WEALTH OF NATIONS. |
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