Engl. 433: Syllabus

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8/24

Course Objectives and Expectations

Historicisms, Old and New: "The Elizabethan World Picture" of Traditional Historicism vs. Cultural Materialism and New Historicism in Early Modern Studies

Some Guidelines for Successful Reading: Active, Critical Reading Strategies

8/26 Class Meets in Library Instructional Room

Library Workshop (meet in McConnell Library computer instruction room)

MLA Projects and Scholarly Essay Assignment: Using MLA Bibliography, RU Electronic Catalog, Other Library Catalogs, World Cat, Interlibrary Loan

8/31

"The Historicity of Texts/The Textuality of History": New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Renaissance Studies

Focus Questions #1 Due: Tillyard, "The Elizabethan World Picture" (Readings, #1); Montrose, "Renaissance Literary Studies and the Subject of History" (Readings, #2); Howard, "The New Historicism in Renaissance Studies" (Readings, #3)

9/2

Tudor Humanism and Reformation Politics: Religion, Sex, Empire and Poetry at the Court of Henry VIII & Elizabeth I

Renaissance Humanism: The Politics of Education and Religion

Focus Questions #2 Due: "The English Humanists" (LRE, 50-52); Sir Thomas Elyot, "The Book Named the Governor" (LRE, 78-83); Roger Ascham, "The Schoolmaster" (LRE, 98-104; 106); Thomas More, Utopia (LRE, 52-56, from Book II, 60-69); William Roper, The Life of Sir Thomas More (LRE, 75-78); Anne Askew, "Introduction," "The Examinations of Anne Askew" (Readings, #4), Anne Askew, "The Ballad which Anne Askew Made and Sang when She Was in Newgate" (Readings, #4)

9/7

Discourses of Sexuality and Gender: Conduct Books, Humanist Gender Politics, Women's Speech and Writing, the Monarchy of Elizabeth I

Focus Questions #3 Due: Karen Newman, Fashioning Femininity in Renaissance Drama, xvii-31 (Readings, #5);"Conduct: Introduction" (Readings, #6); Juan Vives (trans. Richard Hyrde), "The Instruction of a Christian Woman" (two excerpts in Readings, #7); John Knox, "The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Woman" (Readings, #8); Elizabeth I, "Speech to the Troops at Tilbury" (Readings, #9); Jane Anger, "Jane Anger, Her Protection for Women" (Readings, #10)

9/9

Poetry and Sexuality at Court: The "Courtly Makers" and Petrarchanism, Poetical Miscellanies, the "Native Tradition"

Focus Questions #4 Due: Sir Thomas Wyatt, "I find no Peace," "The Long Love that in my Heart Doth Harbour," "My Lute Awake," "Whoso List to Hunt," "They Flee from Me" (LRE, 116-121), "And Wilt Thou Leave me Thus," and "Mine Own John Poins" (Readings #11); Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "Introduction" and "Love that Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought" (LRE, 122; 124); Isabella Whitney, "A Letter to her Unconstant Lover," and "The Maner of her Wyll & What she Left to London ..." (Readings #12); George Gascoigne, "Introduction," "Gascoigne's Lullaby" and "Gascoigne's Woodmanship" (Readings, #13)

9/14 & 16

Petrarchan Discourse of Sex, Gender and Love: The 1590s Sonnet Craze

Focus Questions #5 Due (Do questions #1 & #2 on these readings)

Philip Sidney, "Introduction" and poems from Astrophel and Stella, numbers I, III, XIV, XV, XX, XXVI, XXVIII, XLIX, LXXII (LRE, 125; 130-136); Edmund Spenser, from Amoretti, "Introduction" and numbers 1, 10, 13, 22, 28, 29, 37, 45, 54, 60, 61,64, 67, 68, 69, 71, 76, 84, 86, 89 (Readings #14); Lady Mary Wroth, "Introduction" and #1-3 (Readings #15)

9/21

Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Love Poetry

Focus Questions #5 Due (Do questions #3 & #4 on these readings)

Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, from Caelica, poems number 1, 2, 38, 50, 56, 82, 84, 98, 99, 109 (Readings, #16); Moira P. Baker, "'The Uncanny Stranger on Display': The Female Body in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Love Poetry" (Readings, #17); Shakespeare, from Sonnets, numbers XII, XVIII, XIX, XX, XIXX, XXX, XXXIII, LXXIII, LXXXVI, LXXXVII, CXVLI, CXXIX, CXXX, CXXXV, CXXXVIII, CXLIV, CXLVI (LRE, 427-438)

9/23

Elizabethan Prose Fiction: Masculine Representations of the Erotic and the Silenced Female Voice

George Gascoigne, The Adventures of Master F.J. (in Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction, 3-81)

9/28 Class meets in Library Computer Instructional Room

First Bibliographic Project Due. 5 item working bibliography. 3 analyses of articles

Library Workshop: Using SilverPlatter, Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England ... for Collateral/Contextual Scholarship in Social Sciences, Humanities and Discourses of Early Modern England.

9/30 Focus Questions #6 Due (Do just two on this text)

Gascoigne, Master F.J.

10/5

Same-Sex Eroticism and the Stage

Christopher Marlowe, Edward the Second

10/7 Focus Questions #7 Due (Do just two on this text)

Marlowe, Edward the Second

10/12

Gender and Class Concerns in Middle-Class Drama: Patriarchal Territories Threatened

Arden of Faversham (Anon.)

10/14

Focus Questions #8 Due (Do just two on this text)
Arden of Faversham

Fall Break

10/21

Imperial Designs: Colonization, Nationalism, Patronage and Literature at the Court of Elizabeth

Focus Questions #9 Due (do questions #1 & #2 on these readings)

"The New World" (LRE, 42-43); Thomas Hariot, A True and Brief Report of the New-Found Land of Virginia (LRE, 45-47); Richard Hakluyt, "Introduction," Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and The Principal Navigations [...] of the English Nation (Readings, #18); Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland, "Introduction" and pp. 11-13; 19-21; 93-103 (Readings, #19)

10/26

Establishing a National Literature, "Fashion[ing] a Gentleman," and Demonstrating Mastery as a Poet: Edmund Spenser, Poetry and British Imperialism

Focus Questions #9 Due (do questions #3 & #4 on these readings)

Edmund Spenser, Shepheardes Calender, Introduction and October Aeglogue (ELR, 154-159); April Aeglogue (Readings, #20); Louis Montrose, "The Elizabethan Subject and the Spenserian Text" (Readings, #21)

10/28

Focus Questions #10 Due: (do questions #1 & #2 on these readings)

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Introduction, "A Letter of the Authors," Book I, canto i (LRE, 162-184); Book I, canto iv and explanatory material before the canto (LRE, bottom of 183-189);

11/2

Class Meets in Library Instructional Room

Second Bibliographic Project Due. 5 item working bibliography. 3 analyses of articles

Library Workshop: Resources for Early Modern Studies and Renaissance Literature on the WorldWide Web.

Exploratory/Speculative freewrite on where your research is headed and what you need to learn

11/4

Focus Questions #10 Due (do questions #3 & #4 on these readings)

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book I, canto ix (Readings #21a--for stanzas 1-32 of the canto) and pp. 200-205 in LRE for stanzas 33-54.

11/9

Focus Questions #11 Due: (do only two questions on this reading)

Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book III (LRE, 246-277)

11/11

Subversive Designs: Women's Double-Voiced Discourse, Patronage, and Poetry at the Court of Elizabeth

Focus Question #12 Due (do only two questions on these readings)

Aemilia Lanyer, from Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, "To the Queenes Most Excellent Majestie," "To the Vertuous Reader," excerpts from poem, and "The Description of Cooke-ham" (Readings, #22)

11/16

Elizabethan Satiric Prose Fiction: Acting out the Violence Grounding Patriarchy, Imperialism and the Class System

Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller

11/18

Focus Question #13 Due (do only two questions on this readings)

Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller

11/23

First Draft of Scholarly Essay Due

Writing Workshop

Thanksgiving Break

11/30

Gender and Class Anxiety in Satiric City Comedy

Ben Jonson, Epicoene, or the Silent Woman

Focus Question #14 Due (do only two questions on these readings)

12/2

Focus Question #14 Due (do only two questions on these readings)

Ben Jonson, Epicoene; Mary Beth Rose, "Sexual Disguise and Social Mobility in Jacobean City Comedy" (Readings, #23)

12/7

Interrogating Renaissance Discourses of Femininity: Breaking the Rule of Silence

Focus Question #15 Due (do only two questions on these readings)

Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedie of Miriam Faire Queene of Jewry (Readings, #24). Read introduction and all excerpts from play

12/9

Final Version of Scholarly Paper Due

Wrap-Up

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