This revised module seeks to introduce students to a representative range of writing across the Restoration and Eighteenth Century. The seminar texts illustrate a number of key cultural and political issues: the Restoration of 1660, Puritan versus Cavalier culture, the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, imperialism and colonialism, the growth of a professional literary marketplace, changing conceptions of authorship, the development of the novel, the cult of sensibliity and debates about the "feminization" of culture. In addition to the above, the lectures and seminars will also address the following areas in relation to the literary texts: town and country, gender, sexuality, class, religious expression and morlaity. The module familiarises students with a range of literary forms: poetry, the novel, drama, satire. For each seminar text, there will be 2 lectures: one closely focused on the text, and the other locating that text in wider contexts (cultural, political, biographical, critical, theoretical).