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ENGL 611

Studies in Renaissance Literature

3 credits · Graduate

Fall 2024 · Wasting Time in the Renaissance

Topics

  • Renaissance time and land use
  • Pastoral literature
  • Capitalist time discipline
  • Ecocriticism

Readings

  • Thomas More, Utopia.
    Listed reading
  • Thomas Nashe, Summer’s Last Will and Testament.
    Listed reading
  • Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, selections.
    Listed reading
  • Shakespeare, As You Like It; Henry IV, Part One; The Tempest.
    Listed reading
  • Milton, Comus and poetry; Robert Herrick and Andrew Marvell, poetry.
    Listed reading
  • Possible reading: Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, selections.
    Listed reading
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