This course examines the literary culture associated with Elizabeth I. Issues, including gender and sexuality, power, and religion, will be explored...
This course examines the intimate connections between poetics and politics in Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Civil War and Commonwealth literature. The...
This course explores selected topics in the interrelation of literature and politics from the late seventeenth to the nineteenth century in Britain....
This course will explore texts which engage with such matters as the shifting constructions of the family, changing sexual practices, ideals of...
This course will focus on the language, literature, and culture of Anglo-Saxon England (7th to 11th centuries). In addition to acquiring the basics of...
Drawing upon a range of literary texts from a variety of genres, this course will explore the politics of language and style in a series of cultural...
This course explores the key texts in various genres of British cultural debates of the late eighteenth to the late nineteenth century. Focal points...
This multi-genre course introduces students to the literature of British imperialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The course will...
This course explores selected issues and ideas within this national literature, from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, but with a...
This course will examine a range of issues arising from the materiality of book production and circulation. Topics may include serialization; mass...
This course offers a selective study of 20th- and/or 21st-century play-scripts written in English. Students are advised to consult the...
A study of British literature in its social and historical context. Reading of particular works will be supplemented by visits to sites of literary...
This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements (including modernism) in British literature from the turn of the century to...
This multigenre course explores aesthetic and socio-cultural movements (including postmodernism) in British literature from mid-century to the...
This multigenre course explores the relationship between literary production and political power from the emergence of U.S. culture through the long...
This multigenre course explores powerful examples of modern United States literatures, from about the First World War to the present. The selection is...
This course will introduce students to a range of medieval texts written in English and other languages and will explore the contexts of their...
This course will introduce students to significant aspects of Chaucer's writing read in the context of works by Chaucer's precursors and near...
This multigenre course focuses on Canadian literature to World War One, examining cultural contestation in the Canadian settler colony among the...
This multigenre course examines formations of, and resistances to, ideas of national consciousness and cultural identity in Canadian literature and...