ENGL 421

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Renaissance Poetry and Prose

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Advanced study of poetry and prose written between the reign of Elizabeth I and the late seventeenth century. Authors may include Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Ben Jonson, Mary Wroth, John Donne, Katherine Philips, Andrew Marvell, Margaret Cavendish, and others.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: One year of college literature or consent of instructor.

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ENGL 421 class schedule data for fall 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	40364	Lecture-Discussion	1G	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	104 English Building	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: FA23 ENGL 421 Renaissance Poetry and Prose - Catharine Gray: Most literary historians like to claim their period as a turning point, but scholars of seventeenth-century Britain have an edge: in 1649, the British Parliament tried their King, Charles I, for treason and then publicly beheaded him in front of his London palace. In this course we will explore the artistic and intellectual questioning and debate that characterizes seventeenth-century literature, as authors discuss tyranny and insurrection, free speech, gender roles and sexuality, and religious doctrine and identity. Focusing on some of the major poets and prose writers of the time, we will lay out the period’s traditional ideas about gender, politics, and religion, and then analyze how they mutate in the turbulent and heated exchanges of Revolutionary debate. Authors may include Donne, Speght, Winstanely, Marvell, Milton, Cavendish, and Behn. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	39494	Lecture-Discussion	1U	10:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	104 English Building	Gray, C	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/21/23-12/06/23 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: FA23 ENGL 421 Renaissance Poetry and Prose - Catharine Gray: Most literary historians like to claim their period as a turning point, but scholars of seventeenth-century Britain have an edge: in 1649, the British Parliament tried their King, Charles I, for treason and then publicly beheaded him in front of his London palace. In this course we will explore the artistic and intellectual questioning and debate that characterizes seventeenth-century literature, as authors discuss tyranny and insurrection, free speech, gender roles and sexuality, and religious doctrine and identity. Focusing on some of the major poets and prose writers of the time, we will lay out the period’s traditional ideas about gender, politics, and religion, and then analyze how they mutate in the turbulent and heated exchanges of Revolutionary debate. Authors may include Donne, Speght, Winstanely, Marvell, Milton, Cavendish, and Behn. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.