English 316 - Love, Desire, Sexuality in The Renaissance

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Macalester College

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Visions of erotic love in sixteenth and seventeenth century poetry and narrative, with attention on the forms in which Renaissance writers represented desire, consummation, seduction, betrayal; courtship and marriage; same-sex intimacy; the social, familial, religious, and political demands that complicated eros in personal experience. Thomas Wyatt, Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Thomas Carew, John Milton, and others. Alternate years. (4 credits)

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.macalester.edu

Phone Number:

(651) 696-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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