Want to read the early literature that so much writing is built on? Follow the English-Lit Studies “Medieval and Early Modern Literature” path.
If you want to follow this path, look for these courses next semester:
ENLS 246 01 The Bible as Literature R 7:00 PM – 9:50 PM Paul Siewers
Explore angels and demons, deep beauty, and wicked truth, in the Bible’s many books and influences on literature and film. Get more of a knowledge of the world’s most read texts while exploring the personal and artistic aspects of their meanings: Historical, meditative, allegorical, mystical. ARHC GBCC W2
ENLS 251.01 Sex & the Early Modern City MW 3-4:20pm Emily Loney
Artisans, con men, merchants, and women with money and sexual agency: early modern English city comedy explores the dynamics of a society that was rapidly urbanizing and untangles the hopes and anxieties of city life. In the space of the early modern city, you can’t fully trust that people are who they say they are, and perhaps you’ll lose everything to a con man, but perhaps you’ll also make your fortune, ascend to a higher social class, and marry the love of your life. In this course, we will read a variety of texts written in 16th– and 17th-century England that allow us to consider how the early modern city was imagined by its inhabitants, and how early modern literature of the city offered new avenues for writers to navigate topics related to gender, sex, and love. ARHC
ENLS 341.01 The Hidden God of Nature M 7-9:50pm Paul Siewers
Take a deep dive into cosmic mysteries behind the tradition of the novel in literature, as we explore the role of spirituality in shaping identity, nature, and art. We’ll consider how environment, text, author, and reader combine to make meaning in classic works ranging from ancient Celtic stories to The Brothers Karamazov and modern films, and discuss some big questions of life along the way. ARHC EVCN NPJ
Other courses recently offered or expected to be offered in this path include
- Reading the Renaissance Body (ENLS 250)
- Shakespeare’s Sisters (ENLS 250)
- Love, Sex and Friendship in Early Modern Literature (ENLS 251)
- Shakespeare and Film (ENLS 255)
- Shakespeare (ENLS 257)
- Studies in Shakespeare (ENLS 258)
- Black Lives, 1500-1800 (ENLS 261)
- Performing Disability in Early Modern England (ENLS 350)
- Race, Embodiment, & Imagining the Early Modern Globe (ENLS 350)
- Shakespeare and History (ENLS 358)