Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE: LOVE, SEX, AND DEATH IN THE RENAISSANCE

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This course surveys Renaissance English literature focusing on love, sex, and death as an index of that period's combination of the utterly modern and the resurgence of classical and Italian literature. We will examine how England received and transformed classical elegy, Ovidian myth, Senecan revenge tragedy and Petrarchan love sonnets.