Module Tutor: David Beck Email: D dot C dot Beck at warwick dot ac dot uk

Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11am-12pm in H3.31 or by appointment

Module Convenor: Professor Mark Knights

This interdisciplinary module examines the interaction between the politics, literature and ideas of the long seventeenth century.

The module should appeal to all types of historians, political scientists and literature students, as well as those interested in cultural studies. We will explore the writing of major authors, such as Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jonathan Swift but also less well known authors and texts relating to key themes. These include biography, autobiography and diaries; censorship of the press; the new, experimental science; news and its different forms; satire and polemic; radical consciences; women’s writing; republicanism; and utopias.

The module will exploit Early English Books Online and Eighteenth Century Collections Online, together with other on-line resources.

Module aims and intended outcomes

Module Syllabus: weekly guide to topics

Assessment Information

Reading

Electronic Resources

Student feedback

Restricted content:

lecture notes

student presentations