ENGL*3170 Elizabethan Literary Culture: Chastity and Power (ENGL*3170) | College of Arts

ENGL*3170 Elizabethan Literary Culture: Chastity and Power (ENGL*3170)

Code and section: ENGL*3170*01

Term: Winter 2017

Instructor: Daniel Fischlin

Details

The course will survey seminal figures in early modern literary culture and sample key texts including works by Sydney, Spenser, Puttenham, Queen Elizabeth, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Donne. Specific focal points for the course will be the connections among rhetorical skill, power (ideology), and gender––especially in relation to monarchic writing. The course will also pay close attention to poetry from the period with significant consideration of the basic elements of prosody will be discussed.). Reading-intensive course.

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