ENGL2658 - Love and Desire in Early Modern England

Semester 1, 2013  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Liam Eagle Semler
Phone: +61 2 9351 6852
Email: liam.semler@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit is an introduction to texts and concepts of the early modern period (1550-1750). It specifically looks at the languages used to investigate love and desire in early modernity. Students will explore works by Shakespeare and other male and female writers and be encouraged to discover relationships between emotion, reason, poetic language, rhetoric, politics and sexuality.

Assessments

1x1000wd essay (25%), 1x1500wd essay (40%), 1x1500wd take-home exercise (35%)

Textbooks

'Broadview Anthology of British Literature Vol. 2: The Renaissance and Early Seventeenth Century
Shakespeare'

Classes

2x1-hr lectures/week,
1x1-hr tutorial/week

Prerequisites

(12 junior credit points from English) or (6 junior credit points from English and AMST1001)

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