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Further readings sample those contexts and discourses. Regular attendance is required for a passing final grade (a maximum of two absences will be allowed except for documented medical or similar emergencies).ĮNGL 305 Renaissance English Literature I Sixteenth-Century Nondramatic Literary Cultureĭescription: A tour through the English literary Renaissance from around 1500 to 1600, apart from drama, emphasizing literary authors and texts of particularly high quality and influence, and relating them to significant or interesting cultural contexts and nonliterary discourses, including the visual arts. Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela (Oxford)Įvaluation: Paper (50%), tests (40%), participation (10%).Eliza Haywood, Love in Excess (Broadview).

Aphra Behn, Oronooko and Other Writings (Oxford).Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (Norton).Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote (Norton).Abelard and Heloise, The Letters and Other Writings (Hackett).Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (Oxford).Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (Oxford).(The list of texts and editions below is tentative and incomplete, to be confirmed in September 2020.) Texts: The required reading for this course will include most or all of the following books, which will be available at The Word Bookstore (469 Milton Street, 51). Our work together will aim at a critical analysis of the textual ideologies articulated in this experimental process of historical combination. We will consider the novel as responding to a network of interrelated problems – of the self and its imaginative politics – at the representational crossroads of medieval epic, courtly romance, spiritual autobiography, picaresque satire, colonialist adventure, gallant intrigue, baroque casuistry, bourgeois conduct book, sentimental love story, moral treatise, psychological realism, and mock-heroic “comic epic in prose.” As the emerging literary “form of forms,” the early modern novel vibrantly juxtaposes and interweaves all these different generic strands. Our readings and discussion will refer to the European context of the evolution of this narrative form in England. Description: This course will canvas some of the “origins” of the English novel and trace its development (particularly as anti-romance satire and realism) up to the mid-eighteenth century.