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This course surveys British literature of the long eighteenth century. Beginning with Charles ll's restoration to the English throne in 1660 and ending with another pivotal moment in British political history, the democratizing Reform Act of 1832, the long eighteenth century encompasses several major literary and intellectual currents, including libertinism, Enlightenment, sensibility, and Gothicism. We will read across genres and artistic mediums, considering novels, poems, plays, diaries, essays, periodicals, paintings, and engravings, among other cultural forms. Our core objectives will be: • to historicize developments in British print culture from the Restoration to the early Romantic period; • to think critically about significant topics in cultural history, including authorship, childhood, gender, race, and status; •. and to explore how another cultural and historical context relates to our own. Writing Intensive Course Please consider submitting an essay written for this class to the Electronic Writing Portfolio (EWP). Visit the following we