ENGL 5000 - Studies in British Literature I

(3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours 3 Credit Hours)

Topics rotate: Medieval Literature: An examination of medieval English literature in its various aspects, considering texts in their historical context. Renaissance Literature: An investigation of Renaissance literature in its various aspects, including, but not limited to, poetry, prose, and drama, and a consideration of that literature as a part and product of its historical period. Seventeenth Century British Literature: An investigation of significant issues, themes, and ideologies in selections of seventeenth-century British literature studied in terms of their original cultural context. Eighteenth Century British Literature: A topic-centered examination of drama, fiction, poetry and other textual expression from Restoration and eighteenth-century Britain. Works may be studies in their historical, political, cultural and aesthetic context. May be repeated for credit as topic varies.