Course details

Name: ENGL - 240

Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE I: BEGINNINGS TO 1660

Section: 03

Semester: Fall - 2022

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 through the Renaissance in the 1500s and early 1600s. 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: Wednesday From 8:00 am To 10:30 am

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