2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Nov 18, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

ENG 140 - British Literature I

This course provides a foundational study of (mostly) English literature from the early medieval period to the late 17^th century. We will read works by both canonical and lesser-known writers while exploring related social and cultural themes within their historical contexts, including courtly influence on the arts, the development of English drama, emerging colonialism, and the early modern emphasis on writing about the self. We will also investigate how these texts engage with eternally resonant issues like war and peace, interpersonal violence, gender, sexuality, race, class, etc. Featured authors include (but are not limited to) the Beowulf and Gawain poets, Chaucer, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Cavendish.

For English majors, this course may satisfy the B-1 or D-1 requirements but cannot double count. For English minors, this course satisfies the B-1 requirement.

Prerequisites: IDND 018 or VE Placement

Course Designation/Attribute: HP, DI

Anticipated Terms Offered: Every year