Academic Calendar 2015/2016 - Early Modern Literature

ENGL 3045  Early Modern Literature

Prerequisites:

Six credits from the following: ENGL2006, ENGL2007, ENGL2255, ENGL2265

Antirequisites:

ENGL 2045

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week.

Credits:

6

Description:

This course surveys a wide selection of genres taken from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may give additional emphasis to either Spenser or Milton, the two main canonical figures of this period. The purpose is to give the student a grasp of not only the formal demands but also the historical richness of this period's literature. To that end, classes not only consider the profoundly rhetorical orientation of this literature, but also demonstrate how this literature actively participates in and is shaped by early modern culture.