Sep 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

EN 321 European Renaissance and Enlightenment Literature


(4 Credits)
This is a selective study and appreciation of texts from 16th, 17th, and 18th century European literature with a focus on the English tradition and a consideration of the historical contexts of the works studied. Readings are drawn from Renaissance essayists and novelists such as More, Montaigne, Bacon, and Cervantes; Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists such as Jonson, Shakespeare, and Webster; English lyric poets such as Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Marvell; major works from later 17th century and Restoration authors such as Milton, Dryden, and Congreve; and major figures from the 18th century such as Pope, Swift, Voltaire, Defoe, Fielding, and Sterne.

Required for English majors

Prerequisite: Junior standing or above.