ENGL 5121 is also offered in Fall 2024
ENGL 5121 is also offered in Spring 2022
Fall 2024 | ENGL 5121 Section 001: Readings in Early Modern Literature and Culture -- Colonial America in the Atlantic World (32088)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Repeat Credit Limit:
- 9 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
UMTC, East Bank
Pillsbury Hall 114
- Enrollment Status:
Open (4 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Topical readings in early modern poetry, prose, fiction, and drama. Attention to relevant scholarship or criticism. Preparation for work in other courses or seminars. prereq: Grad student or instr consent
- Class Notes:
- For at least the past thirty years, study of colonial America has constituted something other than a myopic focus on New England. This seminar's point of departure, then, is that anything about "America" in the early modern period is simultaneously about Europe, about Africa, about the Caribbean, and about the first worlds of Native peoples. Focused on English "settlements" in Virginia, Massachusetts, Barbados, and Jamaica, and on the imperial hubs of London and Edinburgh, we will explore early Atlantic literature in contexts as various, and variously interlocking, as: adventuring in the "New World"; performance and the Shakespearean stage; Indigenous languages and epistemologies; English and American Puritanism; witchcraft and obeah; the English Civil Wars; the American Revolution and the politics of the New Republic; the rise of institutionalized slavery; and the early American novel. Each site will give us the opportunity to explore a range of methodological practices that will prepare you for continued graduate study in English, particularly as it intersects with the related disciplines of History, American studies, and religious studies.
- Class Description:
- Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/32088/1249
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