ENGL 524

Spring 2013 All Classes

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Seminar in 17th C Literature

Credit: 4 hours.

May be repeated if topics vary. Prerequisite: A college course devoted entirely to an aspect of Renaissance studies or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 524 class schedule data for spring 2013
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32264	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	113 English Building	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/14/13-05/01/13 Section Title: Popular & Print Culture Section Info: Topic Section R: Popular and Print Cultures in Early Modern Britain, 1600 to 1665 This seminar explores new forms emerging from London stages, studies, and presses for Britain?s growing audiences: drama performance and playbooks, ballads as both sung and published; prose fictions of empire, original and recycled; tomes on health, gender, and devotion remediated as chapbooks; learned defenses of the press and scurrilous news pamphlets. As that list suggests, early documents often fall into pairs of performed and published texts, or scholarly and popularizing texts, linked by bibliography but produced and consumed for different, but overlapping, audience segments. These varied social uses were sometimes, but not always, re-defined during the upheaval of civil war at mid-century. Students will engage these pairings both individually, to share their case studies conference-style, and collaboratively, to build a new model of the period?s compound and intersecting literacies. We?ll test whether less-studied forms of cultural production can be recovered and understood using a print-culture focus and tools that range from early printed materials to burgeoning digital applications; up to one-third of our class meetings will be in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Secondary readings will emphasize such questions as the multiplicity of readers? practices, the alleged conservatism of popular tastes, and the instability of emergent media?problems transferrable well beyond seventeenth-century Britain. TEXTS: will include The Book History Reader, ed. Finkelstein and McCleery, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2006); course packets. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.