Course details

Name: ENGL - 240

Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE I: BEGINNINGS TO 1660

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2019

Credits: 3

Description:
This course will survey some of the greatest and most important works of English literature, from its beginnings in Old English up to Milton’s /Paradise Lost/ (first published in 1667). Spanning genres as diverse as sonnets, essays, dramas, epic poems, and even Arthurian prose romances, we will read such works as /Beowulf/, /Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/, Thomas Malory’s /Morte Darthur/, Chaucer’s /Canterbury Tales/, Edmund Spenser’s /Shepheardes Calender/, Shakespeare’s /Hamlet/, and John Donne’s love poetry. Significant attention will also be paid throughout to women’s writing and to questions of gender and sexuality.

Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm

Graduation requirements:

• Any Literature (1e)
• Genre Study (Poetry)
• Pre-1700 (1a)
• Pre-1800 (1b)
• Pre-1900 (1c)
• Women and Gender Studies (3c)
• Pre-1800 British (TE 1b)

Teaching Faculty: Miller Jeffrey (millerje)

Is course canceled: No