ENGL 524

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Seminar in Early Modern Literature

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Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar dedicated to the study of texts, genres, themes, and/or theoretical issues from the non-Shakespearean literature of the early modern period (approximately 1500-1700).

4 graduate hours. No professional credit. May be repeated in separate terms to a maximum of 16 hours, 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 fall 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	30191	Online	F	4:00PM -6:50PM	R	n.a.	Newcomb, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/20-12/09/20 Section Info: Early Modern Print Culture: Past, Present, Future -This seminar considers early modern textual production as it straddled manuscript and print, and as it now adopts digital forms. How did the differences between manuscript circulation and print publication shape imaginative expression? Going forward, how will we experience literature from the age of print? By exploring how early modern English cultural experience was shaped by constant movement from manuscript into print, and is now being reshaped by digital tools, we can recognize a continuous process of remediation that raises interpretive questions for our scholarly past, present, and future. Past: history of printed forms and the book trade, focused on a few emerging domains of prestige literature (poetry, stage drama, prose fiction) and street literature (broadside ballad, polemical prose). What do we gain and lose when a text moves into a modern edition? What do we uncover when we un-edit these forms? Present: students will tap holdings of our rare book library, facsimiles, and existing digital tools to analyze individual texts for signs of intended and actual use by readers. In this early period of the book trade, should we attempt to categorize reading experience by gender, status, locale? Future: What can we do next with digital full-text databases? For instance, given the fluidity of early modern cultural forms, how can we classify genres, track their emergence, or measure change? Do we need other digital platforms, for example for the history of reading? Textbooks: • Michelle Levy and Tom Mole, Broadview Introduction to Book History (2017) • Michelle Levy and Tom Mole, eds., Broadview Reader in Book History, (2014) • Sarah Werner, Studying Early Printed Books, 1450-1800 (Wiley-Blackwell 2019) • Broadview Anthology of British Literature, Vol. 2 The Renaissance & Early Seventeenth Century, 3rd ed. (2016), co-bound with King Lear • Valerie Hotchkiss and Fred Robinson, English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton (U Illinois P, 2008) • Tiffany Stern, Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 2009) • Critical articles on selected period texts. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.