AUENG 241 - The Augustan Age

★ 3 (fi 6) (either term, 3-0-0) Literature - poetry, prose, drama, and fiction - of the period from 1660 to 1745. The majority of the authors of this period, including Dryden, Wycherley, Behn, Astell, Fyge, Swift, Pope, and Defoe, were above all concerned with a person’s relation to other people, the practical questions of ethical behaviour. The predominant mode was satiric. Prerequisites: Two of AUENG 102, 103, or 104. Note: Not to be taken by students with credit in AUENG 341.