Professor Deutsch is very sweet and passionate about Jonathan Swift. I liked her assignments, and she offered great suggestions during office hours. The Norton was under $40, although spending any amount of money in this economy is not ideal! Swift is a force of nature, and reading him was quite difficult for me. I wish honestly we read some of the texts with more detail, and I felt by assigning so much reading, there was simply too much to talk about and hard to be organized. But overall, I never felt that lectures were ever inaccessible and there's lots of interesting content to mull about, even if not all of it is enthralling. This class is definitely for lovers of satire and all things 18th century. I think some of the smartest English majors I have ever met enrolled in this class, so that's always a plus. You can participate in person or by submitting comments on the class website.