This course examines various aspects of the literature and culture of early modern England. The course may examine, at the instructor's choice, some part of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may focus on a variety of issues, including gender and sexuality, poetics and politics, religion and authority, nation and empire, and their relation to literary production. The genres and writers examined will vary.
This course examines various aspects of the literature and culture of early modern England. The course may examine, at the instructor's choice, some part of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and may focus on a variety of issues, including gender and sexuality, poetics and politics, religion and authority, nation and empire, and their relation to literary production. The genres and writers examined will vary.