TOPIC IN EARLY MODERN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

ENGL/MEDIEVAL 423

Study of a topic in medieval literature.

ENGL 720

Provides an overview of recent scholarly debates in the study of early modernity. Considers two key challenges involved in the study of early modernity: first, what (and when) constitutes early modernity; second, the study of early modernity is necessarily cross-disciplinary. Beginning with the question of what constitutes the "early modern," approach the topic of early modernity from a variety of disciplinary and thematic lenses. The themes include periodization, early modern legal and state formation, women in early modernity, race and early modernity, religion in early modernity, and global early modernities.

FRENCH 431

Exploration of a thematic selection of texts from the Early Modern period. Taught in French.

ENGL 438

Study of a topic in 18th-Century literature.

ENGL 804

Study of a topic in Early modern literature.