English Studies (ENGL) - Vice and Folly: The Age of Satire, 1660-1730
ENGL 3097 Vice and Folly: The Age of Satire, 1660-1730
Prerequisites:
Six credits of 2000 level ENGL (excluding
ENGL 2001,
ENGL 2011) or any 45 credits
completed (excluding ENGL 1501, ENGL 1502,
ENGL 2001,
ENGL 2011).
Antirequisites:
ENGL 3095
Hours:
Three hours of lecture per week for one term.
Credits:
3
Description:
“Satire,” wrote Jonathan Swift, “is a sort of Glass, wherein Beholders do generally discover every body’s Face but their Own.” At once despondent and ironic – satiric, really – Swift’s statement points to a central question that haunted the practice of satire even in the era when it most flourished: what’s the point of it? Students examine this question through a close consideration of theory and practice in the Age of Satire. Particular attention is given to works by Dryden, Swift, and Pope.