Course details

Name: ENGL - 348

Title: RENAISSANCE LITERATURE

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2012

Credits: 3

Description:
This course samples representative works of poetry, drama, prose fiction and non-fiction emerging from one of the greatest and most exciting moments in English literary history. Poetry from sonnet to epic, Utopian fiction, early romance novels, political treatises, and drama open windows upon a remarkable period of social, political, scientific, religious, and artistic revolution, one that paid respect to the past while inventing itself for the future. Among other topics, we look at changing ideas about sex and gender roles, citizenship, colonialism, class and social mobility, religious controversies sparked by the Protestant Revolution, and new scientific and technological discoveries that changed the way people understood the universe, the world, and their places in it. Representative works cover a range of genres including love poetry, romance, tragedies of ambition and revenge, dramatic comedy, and prose satires, by such authors as Sidney, Spenser, Jonson, Donne, Marlowe, Kyd, Webster, Queen Elizabeth, and Shakespeare's (non-dramatic) poetry.

Last updated on 2012-04-03 By Harrison Kim (harrisonk)

Schedule: Monday From 5:30 pm To 8:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

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• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
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• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Miller Jeffrey (millerje)

Is course canceled: No