Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 16TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE: DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL VOICE ***** Lyric and Life-Writing in Early Modern England: We will read works in prose and verse, by men and women, published and unpublished, trying to understand the people who chose to write about themselves when almost no one else was doing so. Who were they? Why did they write? How? We will be particularly concerned with the development of a personal voice, and the difference between voice in personal documents like diaries and "voice" in lyric (Skelton, Wyatt), sonnet (An Lok, Sidney, Shakespeare), "female complaint" (Ovid translations, Shakespeare, Drayton), and fiction (Greene, Nashe, Delony). ***** INSTRUCTOR: Skura, Meredith Repeatable for Credit.