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3.00 Credits
Asurvey of major genres and writers of the English Renaissance. The course is concerned with the historical context of the production and reception of Renaissance texts. Emphasis is on how sixteenth and seventeenth century innovations in formal techniques are related to cultural and institutional change. Typical writers will include More, Spenser, Marlowe, Wroth, Sidney, Shakespeare, Lanier, Donne, and Milton. Topics and issues covered include gender and the erotic, humanism and power, religion, imperialism, social hierarchy, and notions of selfhood. Every fall. Cr 3.
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A study of selected plays from the English Renaissance. The course may focus on a particular theme, genre, sociopolitical issue, or author. Typical topics include theater and the state, unruly women, magic and witchcraft, the construction of the " other," and rebellion. Playwrights typically includedare Kyd, Marlowe, Dekker, Webster, Middleton, and Jonson. 2-year cycle, spring. Cr 3.
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ENG 360 and 361 each feature close reading of five to seven Shakespearean plays, and focus attention both on theatrical and philosophical meanings. Both courses include tragedies and comedies; neither is introductory nor prerequisite to the other. ENG 360 often includes a section on Shakespeare's history plays, while ENG 361 includes a section on Shakespeare's "romances." Every semester. Cr 3
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An advanced course in Shakespeare which emphasizes the application of various critical and scholarly approaches to important aspects of the poet and dramatist's work. Typical subjects include allegorical elements in Shakespeare's plays; Shakespeare and the daemonic; Shakespeare and computers; Shakespeare and popular culture; Shakespeare, theater, and the state; Shakespeare's sources; Shakespeare, gender, and sexuality. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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Selected topics and writers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The course may focus on an author, genre, historical moment, socio-historical problem, or discursive practice. Typical topics include popular culture, the "New Science," pastoraland politics, literature of "New World" explorationand colonization, the market, the English Civil War. Courses will typically study the relation of diverse practices of writing or generic conventions to the social and political order of Renaissance England. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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Focusing mostly upon representative or canonical texts, this is a multi-generic course intended to provide an overview of British literature and culture in the "long" eighteenth century, 1660-1800. Readingswill be organized around several of the following cultural and historical issues: political and religious controversies; the role of science and experimentation; the creation of the literary professional; women and the domestic sphere; the growth of the British Empire. Critical and theoretical texts may accompany literary readings. Every fall. Cr 3.
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More specialized than ENG 365, this course offers the opportunity for intensive focus upon a single genre, author, issue, or historical moment to be determined by the instructor. Typical topics include satire and the politics of "wit," the cult of sensibility,theater and anti-theatricality, the eighteenth-cen- British Literature tury long poem, and seduction and the scandalous memoir. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Students should consult the Department's Course Guide for detailed descriptions. Cr 3.
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Focusing upon representative early American texts, this course considers questions of revolution, the transition from colonialism, emergent nationalisms, and constructions of citizenship within the context of the American War for Independence and the ensuing years of the Early Republic. 2-year cycle, spring. Cr 3.
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More specialized than ENG 367, this course offers the opportunity for intensive focus upon a single genre, author, issue, or historical moment, to be determined by the instructor. Typical topics include science in/and the New World, American nationalisms, the rise of slavery in the colonies, witchcraft and public order, the French Revolution in America,
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3.00 Credits
The course explores the emergence of the novel as a new literary mode, one both dependent upon and distinguishable from the kinds of prose narrative which are usually described as its origins: journalism, scandalous memoirs, Puritan autobiographies, conduct books, etc. 3-year cycle, fall. Cr 3.
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