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3.00 Credits
How depictions of love in selected Renaissance poetry reflected notions of love in the larger Renaissance society.
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A close reading of the prose and poetry of selected medieval saints, with particular emphases on expressions of faith and the literary forms used to express that faith.
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Close readings of selected Old English and Middle English prose.
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A close reading of William Shakespeare's major tragedies, including historical and biographical aspects of the works.
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3.00 Credits
Medieval writers operated in a world fraught with political and ecclesiastical controversy, sometimes extending to censorship, imprisonment and judicial execution. Yet at the same time, evidence survives of a surprising degree of tolerance for certain radical ideas. This course will examine how the major writers of late medieval England negotiated official censorship, but also exploited or earned tolerances extended by the authorities. English authors to be studied will include Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Wyclif, Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Marguerite Porete (the only medieval woman author to have been burned at the stake for her writings). These texts will be read alongside excerpts from some anonymous English texts, including political lyrics like the Kildare poems, popular imitations of Piers Plowman and the Canterbury Tales, and Wycliffite writings. Articles of inquisition, statutes, legal defenses, trial records, petitions and broadsides will also be available for research. The aim is to help illuminate how literary writers sought to defend or enlarge their religious or political orthodoxies in response to the challenges of the time. Topics to be discussed will include: reception of visionary writing, attitudes toward women's learning and preaching, controversial religious doctrines (like universal salvation, millenarianism, and intellectual freedom), and political controversies over the Commons' control of royal tyranny, the Rising of 1381, the deposition of Richard II, and the problems of colonial Irish literary culture.
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3.00 Credits
The 18th-century novel deals with the questions of social, political, sexual, and economic identities and choices in a time of great change, and this course examines several novels representative of the time period.
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3.00 Credits
Research in the novels of Jane Austen.
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3.00 Credits
A close reading of five late-Victorian novels--Trollope's The Eustace Diamonds, James's Portrait of a Lady, Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Eliot's Daniel Deeronda, and Collins's Armadale--that organize themselves around the thoughts and deeds of "bad girls."
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3.00 Credits
The British novel, 1830-60, as a popular medium through which writers explored serious concerns: E. Bronte, Gaskell, Dickens, Collins.
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3.00 Credits
Fringe characters in, and elements of, British Victorian literature, with a particular emphasis on a modern world being increasingly defined in economic terms.
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