ENGL 3201
European Literature
Major movements and works from Dante's Divine Comedy through Voltaire's Candide. Themes include the New Humanism vs. old Chivalry in the Renaissance and Baroque periods; the rise of the modern novel and drama; reason, nature, and the Enlightenment project.
2022
Readings
- Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, ed. J. Dean and H. Spiegel (Broadview).
- Torquato Tasso, The Liberation of Jerusalem, trans. Max Wickert (Oxford) [9780199535354].
Prerequisites & course information
Also listed as HUMS 3200 . Prerequisite(s): Restricted to students in the English program with third year standing and above. Lectures three hours a week.