Spring 2025 English BC3160 section 003

THE ENGLISH COLLOQUIUM

Call Number 00225
Day & Time
Location
W 12:10pm-2:00pm
To be announced
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Jayne Hildebrand
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 12 students (12 max) as of 4:05PM Saturday, December 21, 2024
Status Full
Subject English
Number BC3160
Section 003
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251ENGL3160X003