Course details

Name: ENGL - 240

Title: ENGLISH LITERATURE I: BEGINNINGS TO 1660

Section: 02

Semester: Fall - 2024

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 first half of the 1600s. Spanning genres as diverse as sonnets, essays, dramas, epic poems, and Arthurian prose romances, we will read such works as /Beowulf/, /Sir Gawain and the Green Knight/, Geoffrey Chaucer’s /Canterbury Tales/, Thomas Malory’s /Morte Darthur/, Edmund Spenser’s /Shepheardes Calender/, and William Shakespeare’s /Hamlet/.

Significant attention will also be paid throughout to medieval and Renaissance women’s writing (encompassing, for example, works by Julian of Norwich, Margery Kempe, Mary Wroth, and Aemilia Lanyer), as well as 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