8. Introduction to the Renaissance Eng/UG/O8 This course will provide students with a foundation for the study of the complex cultural movement known as the Renaissance in Europe. It will give an account of historical and social changes as well as of humanist
scholarship and pedagogy, and their contribution to the development of Renaissance art, culture and literature.
9. Literature of the English Revolution Eng/UG/O9 The course includes a study of the social and cultural backgrounds of the English Revolution study of select prose pamphlets the poetry of Milton and Marvell
10. The Age of Enlightenment Eng/UG/O10 This course will explore the intellectual movement called Enlightenment which began in England in the 17
th century and spread out
to France and Germany in the 18
th
, by introducing students to selected texts from the domains of philosophy,
political theory, economics, science and religion. It is designed to provide background readings
to the study of literature, with a view to understanding what
is Enlightenment and how it has increasingly come
under criticism from the late 18
th century to the present.
11. The Romantic Novel Eng/UG/O11 A reading of five novelists—Walpole, Mrs Radcliffe, Lewis, Scott and Jane Austen. The reading will examine their major thematic
and stylistic characteristics, some of them already evident in the new poetry and drama of the time.
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