Spring 2025 English BC3160 section 002

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Call Number 00224
Day & Time
Location
T 11:00am-12:50pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required Instructor
Instructor Achsah Guibbory
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 9 students (12 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Subject English
Number BC3160
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251ENGL3160X002