Spring 2024 English BC3160 section 004

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Call Number 00686
Day & Time
Location
W 10:10am-12:00pm
407 Barnard Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Eugene A Petracca
Type COLLOQUIA
Course Description Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to Barnard English majors. In the Enlightenment colloquium we will look at English and European imaginative and intellectual life during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, writers tried in new ways to reconcile the tensions between reason and religion. Categories of thought that underlie our world today were taking shape: secularity, progress, the public and the private, individual rights, religious tolerance. Writers articulated principles of equality in an era of slavery. Literary forms like the novel, which emerges into prominence during this period, express in irreducibly complex ways these and other changes. In this intensive course, we will study from multiple angles a variety of authors that may include Hobbes, Dryden, Locke, Spinoza, Lafayette, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Richardson, Voltaire, Fielding, Johnson, Diderot, Sterne, and Wollstonecraft, among others.
Web Site Vergil
Department English @Barnard
Enrollment 11 students (12 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Subject English
Number BC3160
Section 004
Division Barnard College
Note JR BC ENGLSH MAJR/FUTURE ENGLSH MAJR JR TRANSFR STUDNT ONLY
Section key 20241ENGL3160X004