Honours Specialization - Transgressing Boundaries in Early Modern Literature

ENGL 3247  Transgressing Boundaries in Early Modern Literature

Prerequisites:

Six credits of 2000 level English (excluding ENGL 2001, ENGL 2002 and ENGL 2011).

Antirequisites:

ENGL 3045

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week for one term.

Credits:

3

Description:

Students examine Paradise Lost and a variety of poetic, prose, and dramatic works, in their cultural-historical contexts including controversies about idolatry, magic, and witchcraft, developments in visual culture, geographic exploration, and scientific study, and discourses of sexual and racial otherness.