Writing Women/Women Writing in Early Modern England 1540-1640

3 credits · Graduate

This half-credit course explores the context and range of women’s writing in Tudor and Stuart England. Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, we will examine a range of works by and about women, from witchcraft trials and medical treatises, to poems, plays, translations and polemical pamphlets in an attempt to determine the relation of early women writers to their culture. Writers to be studied in depth include Mary Wroth, Elizabeth Cary, and Aemilia Lanyer. FORMATS: Seminar