ENGL 405 - English Literature of the Seventeenth Century

3 Credits

(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course examines literary production in Great Britain from the early seventeenth century until the Restoration. Readings in Donne, Jonson, and Milton will be augmented with works by other poets such as Herbert, Marvell, Wroth, Vaughan, Crashaw, Herrick, and Philips, and prose writers such as Sir Francis Bacon and Hobbes. The literary production of the age will be considered in relation to other cultural determinants such as religion, gender and identity, education, the emergence of the media, and politics.