ENG 6337 Pope, Swift, and Their Circle
Concentrates on the major narrative, polemical, and satirical works of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, the two defining literary figures of the first half of the eighteenth century, as well as selected works by Arbuthnot, Gay, Bolingbroke, and Fielding, their close friends and associates within two overlapping contexts: the Scriblerus Club formed to satirize abuses of learning, and the political Opposition to the longstanding government of Sir Robert Walpole.