ENG 223-01 - The Tradition of English Lit I

4 credits Fall

This course offers a broad overview of English literary history from its murky beginnings to 1700. We will read several key texts-from Old English riddles and poems to works by Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and Aphra Behn. We’ll explore the contexts that shaped and were shaped by this literature and analyze the literary conventions and artistic movements that developed over time. Throughout, we’ll trace recurring themes like encounters with the divine and the marvelous, the changing conditions of textual production and reading, nature and land use, labor, love, and the question of who or what is “English.” Prerequisite: English 120 or English 121 for majors; for non-majors, English 120 or 121 or third-year standing. EKLUND.

Prerequisite: ENG-120 or ENG-121 for majors; for non-majors, ENG-120 or ENG-121 or third-year standing
Instructor: Eklund