Wednesday, April 29, 2009

New Course Offering! Tell your Friends!

It's not in the system yet, but it will be in a day or two. Meets Group I requirements.


Before Victoria Had a Secret: Sex and Sentiment in Early Modern England (late-breaking English 300 offering)

MWF 1pm


In this course, you will explore the literary depiction of desire before the Victorian era. Instead of the repressive decorum that often gets associated with the sexuality of earlier times, you will encounter a fluid and changing world, where sexuality is celebrated, feared, debated, encouraged, scorned and expressed, by men and women alike. Through close reading of a broad swathe of primary texts, you will learn to interpret the language of early modern desire, to investigate the relationships between genre and expression, to register the significance of race and class to issues of gender, and to engage productively in critical disagreement. Readings will take you from the frank eroticism of Restoration coterie poetry, to the libidinal peregrinations of James Boswell and Fanny Hill, from the containment of female desire in Frances Burney’s Evelina, to the polymorphous perversity of Matthew Lewis’s The Monk.

4 comments:

Liz Svoboda said...

Is it Engl 300 or a 400 level?

KW said...

It's an English 300 (the advanced comp. requirement for English majors). I'll add that to the post.

Emily said...

Not 300, just a 300 level class?

KW said...

No, it is 300 (Writing about Literature), same as this one you're taking right now. It's now listed in the course registration system.