Love and Desire in Early Modern England
ENGL2658
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.
Unit of study details
Unit of study level: Senior
Credit points: 6
Commencing semesters: 1, 11
Further unit of study information
Unit of study handbook: ENGL2658
Costs and scholarships information: Costs and Scholarships
Final dates to withdraw from units of study: Census Dates
Available for study abroad and exchange: No
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