Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: EARLY MODERN LITERATURE ***** In this course, loosely organized as a survey of the kinds of writing circulating among elite and popular cultures in early modern England, we will study forms as different as love poetry, medical treatises, letters, and courtly masques. The invention of the printing press, and the corresponding rise of literacy in England at this time (roughly from 1550-1660) gave people from all walks of life access to a rich variety of written artifcacts- including those writings destined for the stage and the pulpit. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Dietz, Elizabeth