LIT-389 Writing Sin, Sex, and Subversion in the English Renaissance

This course juxtaposes the Puritan and the pornographic, the sacred and the profane, the orthodox and the subversive to complicate these seeming binaries and recover a fuller view of Renaissance England's queer and feminist potentialities. Female knights on epic quests; boys acting women's parts on stage; martyrs (or heretics) burning at the stake; a country ripped apart by civil war; a king beheaded. Using queer and feminist theory, we'll examine England's complex and conflicting literary culture at a time of trauma and transition, 1509-1685. Major authors include: More, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Donne, Locke, Philips, Nashe, Herbert, Rochester, & Behn.  (Theory or History) (SSIH).

Maximum Enrollment

Proseminar (16)

(Proseminar, Writing Intensive, Social Structural and Institutional Hierarchies.)

Credits

1

Cross Listed Courses

MDRST-389

Prerequisite

two courses in Literature or Medieval and Renaissance Studies