English 308: Seventeenth-Century Literature
[PORTIONS OF THIS SYLLABUS HAVE BEEN REMOVED FOR THIS FORMAT. PLEASE CONSULT THE SYLLABUS YOU RECEIVED IN CLASS FOR THE FULL CONTRACT]
Visit the course blog site for more information about the class <http://seventeenthlit.wordpress.com/>
Dr. Jen Boyle
Asst. Professor of English
jboyle@coastal.edu (Email is the best way to contact me!)
EHFA 206
Office Hours: M W, 1.30-3.00; F 1.30-3.30
This course is a multi-genre, interdisciplinary exploration of seventeenth-century British literature.
Texts you need to obtain copies of:
Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank. Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Broadview Press, 2000 [155111173X]
Aphra Behn, Oroonoko, the Rover, and other works. Ed. Jane Todd. Penguin ,1999 [0140433384]
John Milton, Paradise Lost (Norton Critical Edition). Ed. George Teskey.3rd rev. ed. W.W. Norton, 2004 [0393924289] [THIS NORTON EDITION ONLY]
Ed. Cyril Tourneur, Three Revenge Tragedies. Penguin, 2005 [ 0141441240]
Films we will view:
Restoration
The Usual Suspects
ALL OTHER REQUIRED TEXTS WILL BE AVAILABLE AS LINKS OR ON BLACKBOARD
Course requirements:
2 Short papers and working drafts (approx. 750-1000 words): 30% (15% each)
Final paper (approx. 1500-2000 words) and project: 35%
Attendance and presentations: 15%
Quizzes and postings, peer review sessions, and workshops/discussion: 20%
W (1/13): INTRODUCTION TO CLASS, SYLLABUS, AND UNITS
Historical overviews and sites:
Early maps: look at any listed in the 1600s
New approaches
WEEK TWO: M (1/18)
HOLIDAY
Obtain a copy of Restoration for viewing!
W: (1/20)
Introduction to 17th c history and transversal reading
Have viewed Restoration
WEEK THREE:
M (1/25)
17-century viral media and tabloids: what they’re good for
English Broadside Ballad Archive
Quiz - TBA
W (1/27):
Group Presentation 1:
“Reading for Wormholes: Micro-moments from the Future”
WEEK FOUR: M (2/1)
Critical and verse excerpts
W (2/3)
Group Presentation 2:
WEEK FIVE: M (2/8)
Cavendish
Working Draft of Paper One
W (2/10)
Final Draft of Paper One
WEEK SIX: M (2/15)
Cavendish
Excerpts from Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto”
W (2/17)
Group Presentation 3
“…Cavendish’s Fiction Between Early Modern Philosophy and Cyber Theory”
WEEK SEVEN:
M (2/22)
Behn, Oroonoko
W (1/24)
Group Presentation 4:
Beyond the Legacy of the Enlightenment? Online Encyclopedias as Digital Heterotopias
Behn, Oroonoko
VIEW: the virtual window interactive
WEEK EIGHT: M (3/1)
Behn, The Rover
Draft of Paper Two
W (3/3)
Behn, The Rover
Records of Early English Drama
Performance Exercise
Final of Paper Two
WEEK NINE: M (3/8)
Milton
W (3/10)
VIEW: The Usual Suspects
WEEK TEN: M (3/15)
HOLIDAY
SPRING BREAK
W: (3/17)
__________________________________ F (3/19)
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WEEK ELEVEN M (3/22)
Milton W (3/24)
Group Presentation 5: Two selections from Norton
WEEK TWELVE: M (3/29)
PROJECTS AND CRITICAL PIECES
W (3/31)
Life After the Major
WEEK THIRTEEN:
M (4/5)
Milton and Revenge Tragedy
W (4/7)
Group Presentation 6
WEEK FOURTEEN: M (4/12)
Revenge Tragedy
W (4/14)
Revenge Tragedy
WEEK FIFTEEN:
M (4/19)
Project Presentations
W (4/21)
Project Presentations
WEEK SIXTEEN:
M (4/26)
Project Presentations
W (4/28)
Project Presentations
F (4/30) LAST DAY OF CLASSES
General Resources:
EMLS Early Modern Maps and Cartography
EMLS early texts available electronically
