ENGL 524

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Seminar in 17th C Literature

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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 2018
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	32264	Lecture-Discussion	R	1:00PM -2:50PM	R	English Building	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/18-05/02/18 Section Title: History, temporality and Section Info: History, temporality and seventeenth-century literature Questions of time and history are currently of pressing concern to early modern scholars. For historians, size perhaps does matter, as the scale of the history that we should take as our object of study has become a matter of intense debate, particularly between “micro-” and “macro” historians. At the same time, memory studies and queer theory have turned our attention to linear temporality and its others, asking how understandings of trauma, the performative nature of historical breaks, diachronic simultaneity, nonreproductive futurity or “the new unhistoricism” could challenge our readings of individual texts and change the larger stories we tell about these texts within literary studies. In this course, we’ll grapple with some of the questions raised by these critical developments, and deploy some of the methods they offer, in large part by focusing them on a number of seventeenth-century poems, plays, and pamphlets that themselves take up questions of historical, political, affective, and divine time, including works by John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Lucy Hutchinson, and Anna Trapnel. Throughout the course, therefore, we’ll interweave recent theories and debates surrounding time and history with works by our seventeenth-century authors, in this way building two inter-animating and overlapping archives: one largely theoretical/methodological, the other largely literary. Students will be asked to actively contribute to both of these archives, as together we develop our skills in primary and secondary research by using online databases and the Rare Books Library. The course will culminate in a workshop of seminar papers that will take up one of the texts and issues of the course. These papers can be historically specific or they can work inter-historically to pair texts from different periods (and national literatures) in ways that self-consciously question historical periodization and/or historicist method. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.