ENGL40473

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL/WRIT/CRWT course. This course examines major literary texts written during and immediately after the English Revolution of 1640-1660 with a focus on the poetry and prose of John Milton and his major contemporaries. Topics include Protestant and Catholic poetics, poetry and theology, literary responses to political upheaval and the rise of the new empirical sciences, the status of epic poetry in modern society, and the literary consequences of changes in the structure of family life and gender. Student cannot receive credit for ENGL 55163 and ENGL 40473.