The Course Reader and other texts will be available in paperback for purchase at the Word bookstore, 469 Milton Street, 51. Other parts of the course will address various topics through study of relevant English and translated continental texts, including the gender debate enhancing the status of women the beginnings of female authorship in English contemporary erotica the advent of printing and controls upon print sixteenth-century literary theory the relation of visual iconography and emblematics to literature Neoplatonic love theory and its literary and social impacts and mythography. Featured texts and authors will include Sir Thomas More’s Utopia, Edmund Spenser, including his Shepheardes Calender and the iconography of its twelve illustrations, Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots), and William Shakespeare’s nondramatic poetry. Further readings sample those contexts and discourses. Regular attendance is required for a passing final grade (a maximum of two absences will be allowed except for documented medical or similar emergencies).ĮNGL 305 Renaissance English Literature I Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Literary Cultureĭescription: A tour through the English literary Renaissance from around 1500 to 1600, apart from drama, emphasizing literary authors and texts of particularly high quality and influence, and relating them to significant or interesting cultural contexts and nonliterary discourses, including the visual arts. Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford)Įvaluation: Paper (50%), tests (40%), participation (10%).Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (Broadview). ![]()
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