English 340 - Major English Writers I
Spring
2013
01
4.00
Ingrid Nelson
TTH 02:30PM-03:50PM
Amherst College
ENGL-340-01-1213S
NEWP 100
inelson@amherst.edu
[Before 1800] Readings in the literature of the British Isles from the medieval and early modern periods. We will read masterpieces of English literature by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton alongside lesser-known works by anonymous authors, chroniclers, and women. Our focus will be on the emergence of a distinctly “English” literature, defined by shifting ideas of language, nation, and world from the seventh through seventeenth centuries.
Spring semester. Professor Nelson.