40 Credits ACADEMIC YEAR



Aims/Description: This module surveys the English drama, poetry, and prose from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. We will look at different genres including comedy, tragedy,lyric, prose fiction, the novel, epic, and prose polemic in the works of writers such as Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, John Donne, Oloudah Equiano, Aemelia Lanyer, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton and Alexander Pope. The texts studied will be related to critical methods that help us understand the relationships between literature and the culture, society, and politics of the period in which it was produced.

Staff Contact: RHATIGAN EMMA K
Teaching Methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study
Assessment: Course work, Project/ portfolio

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