Topics: The Seventeenth Century

4 credits

Selected topics in English literature during a period of social change, religious controversy, emergence of the New Science, and the English Civil War. The course may be devoted to one or more major authors, a particular genre, or a political, social, or literary issue. Readings chosen from writers including Jonson, Donne, Bacon, Milton, Marvell, and Dryden, among others. May be taken for credit up to three times as topics vary.