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LIT 331 - English Renaissance Literature


This advanced seminar covers early modern English literature exclusive of drama. Texts will be selected from a variety of genres, including lyric poetry, sonnets, popular prose, personal writing, broadsides, and ballads. Authors may include John Milton, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Katherine Phillips, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, Mary Sidney, Philip Sidney, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, and others. This course satisfies the British Literature component of the major. Prerequisite: junior standing or permission of the instructor.

Credits: 3

Class Level Junior Undergraduate
Program Undergraduate